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.
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.