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Pre-agriculture gender relations seem bad

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"Hunter-gatherers"/"foragers" are sometimes said to have strong gender equality. But as far as I can tell, they don't. Part of the "Has Life Gotten Better?" series.

Click lower right to download or find on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, etc. As part of exploring trends in quality of life over the very long run , I've been trying to understand how good life was during the "pre-agriculture" (or "hunter-gatherer" 1 ) period of human history. We have little information about this period, but it lasted hundreds of thousands of years (or more), compared to a mere ~10,000 years post-agriculture. (For this post, it's not too important exactly what agriculture means. But it roughly refers to being able to domesticate plants and livestock , rather than living o

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