SciShow: Busting the Myth of "Men Hunt, Women Gather"

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Content of the Lesson: We used to believe that our ancestors had clear roles: Men hunt, women gather. But new evidence suggests that some of the earliest big game hunters were women. Thumbnail image credit: MATT VERDOLIVO, © 2020 THE REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Jb Taishoff, Bd_Tmprd, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https:www.eurekalert.orgpub_releases2020-11uoc--ebh102920.php https:advances.sciencemag.orgcontent645eabd0310 https:www.nature.comarticless41598-020-68550-w https:www.sciencedirect.comsciencearticlepiiS0305440318302498?casa_token=Q9nTz9FY19cAAAAA:ZU5Hzm36M3cJ4WfO-sSqOiUu0RUsO3_I6-lBc3Kt7YyaFwec21ddEoh1F0BOlZLg6vkgjD2tleg https:www.nytimes.com20201104scienceancient-female-hunter.html Paranthropus: https:www.eurekalert.orgemb_releases2020-11wuis-ndf110420.php https:source.wustl.edu202004fossil-discoveries-rewrite-our-family-history https:www.nature.comscitableknowledgelibrarythe-robust-australopiths-84076648 Images https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pume_1b.tif https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/247429.php?from=482353 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_Moustier.jpg#/media/File:Le_Moustier.jpg Thanks to Dr. Haas et al. and David Strait / Washington University in St. Louis


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