A balance of both I think. The females would choose the best mates for the situation. More successful males got more pussy.
Otoh? Horney males would bang the prettiest girls. To avoid this (near-constant rape) females would gravitate to the males who could physically protect them as well as provide for the babies.
To do otherwise invited extinction, I think. Animals do the same thing(s) too.
This is also why older females stop getting pregnant. Not just because it would make "damaged" babies who'd die anyhow, but so there's a cadre of women to "service" the young males & keep them off the married women.
Remember, women lived longer than males back then too, widows past their baby-age were probably common. Hence "wise older women" kept their place in society.
7-month pregnant women, spears in one hand & 100 pounds of meat over their shoulders returning to the cheers and adulations of her tribe's wimpy males. Real History^tm 😆
The TLDR is farming society women married hunter gatherer men and convinced them to farm.
Even in ancient times women wanted men to stop going out with their mates and fighting a monster.
̶m̶a̶r̶r̶i̶e̶d̶ "...were disproportionately impregnated by..." is a more parsimonious interpretation.
Billy Betabushels actually did the farming exactly like he does to this very day.
Farmer Chad knocked her up while her husband Beta Hunter went off to risk his life for her
A balance of both I think. The females would choose the best mates for the situation. More successful males got more pussy.
Otoh? Horney males would bang the prettiest girls. To avoid this (near-constant rape) females would gravitate to the males who could physically protect them as well as provide for the babies.
To do otherwise invited extinction, I think. Animals do the same thing(s) too.
This is also why older females stop getting pregnant. Not just because it would make "damaged" babies who'd die anyhow, but so there's a cadre of women to "service" the young males & keep them off the married women.
Remember, women lived longer than males back then too, widows past their baby-age were probably common. Hence "wise older women" kept their place in society.
That's just silly. Everyone knows that women were the actual hunters. The BBC told you so. So it must be true.
7-month pregnant women, spears in one hand & 100 pounds of meat over their shoulders returning to the cheers and adulations of her tribe's wimpy males. Real History^tm 😆