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Fascinating. Though I do wonder how come men managed to retain the power to rule if they were outnumbered by women 17:1 as the video suggests. Sure, average men have distinct advantages in strength and all over average women, but I doubt many men would stand a chance even at 5:1.

The only thing that comes to mind is that we did see something similar in the southern states at the peak of slavery where slave owners were outnumbered by slaves in most cases. Of course, it probably didn’t help that if one plantation had an uprising the cavalry was probably called in to deal with it.

I’m going to guess that with the average life expectancy so low a high birth rate was critical to survival meaning that even if women tried to take charge back then, too many would have to have been pregnant at once to leave enough to be fighters against both foreign and domestic male violence. If they had tried to enslave the men and control the number of pregnancies to keep enough women, the moment the neighboring settlement sends just 5 guys to do a raid, such a woman-led settlement of a population of 20-30 might be doing good to answer that with just 5 of their own warriors which suddenly makes the odds of the women winning at that point much worse, sadly.

If my guess is correct, then it probably didn’t matter that “the cavalry” wasn’t on the men’s side, but it would come all the same and men were the only weapon of mass destruction at the time that could be used reliably.

The worst part of this that with such a dramatic cut in diversity among male genes, you can bet it was the strongest, most aggressive males that survived to pass them on to today’s males. It certainly would explain a lot.

Edited for some spelling mistakes.

TL;DR: The neolithic revolution (agriculture) was a particularly bloody period of human history, and it's possible that warfare (more like raiding) at that time killed off 95% of the male population.

There are alternate explanations, however. It's possible that so much male genetic diversity was lost at that time through patrilineal organization of society. Because men stuck together, they succeeded or failed together, so whole groups of men could be lost through the vagaries of life in the neolithic, leading to less male diversity. Whereas women got around more, partly as captives but also by just not being the enemy the way men were to each other.

Or it could be both causes working together.

Really cool vid! I believe it was a mix of factors, but male vs male violence was definitely a big reason and we can still see that aggression and violence in many modern males today. It’s awful that many times that violence gets turned on women and children. At least it looks like we’re trending in the right direction. More radfem values are needed! 😎

This is a very interesting video