Posted by
Mike on Thursday, January 06, 2011 7:25:39 PM
http://westernperspective.blogspot.com/
What differentiates men from each other are mutations, incremental
variations in DNA structure occurring generationally over time.
The current topic explores why men of Earth's northern regions became
more adept at solving problems than those further south or women
generally. The key to understanding this dilemma is survival.
Northern men were in a continuous battle to provide food, clothing and
shelter for their families within kinship groups. Climate change was
making this struggle more difficult as each year transpired in what we
call the Ice Age. As a result, certain characteristics acquired through
mutations were more likely to result in group survival and more
children reaching childbearing age. Men of each generation became a
little bit stronger, braver, and endowed with more common sense than
their immediate ancestors on average.
The role of women was different. The woman had to provide comfort for
the men and to bear and nurture offspring to ensure that there would be
survival of the tribe from one generation to the next. As climate
conditions grew more severe from one year to the next, each generation
of women became on average more gentle and comforting toward the tribal
men, and more adept at raising children while the men were out hunting
and fishing. The woman also became better adept at making and repairing
clothing, and doing household chores, and gathering eggs, nuts and
berries.
Next episode, we will see how these generational survival adaptations
led to building a culture unlike any that had existed in other parts of
the world.