Recall those 'scientific' theories of the innate inferiority of African Americans and Jews compared with the more lightly evolved Wasps. Another cornerstone of femaleism, apparently, is discrediting the myth that Paleolithic men were hunters and Paleolithic women merely gatherers. Odd too, that Paleolithic culture should look so much like the culture of Levittown circa 1955, with the gals waiting at home for the guys to come back with the bacon. It shouldn't matter, of course, what sex the scientist is, but women had their own reasons for being suspicious of the dominant paradigm . . . And if we accept that females played a varied and active part in the evolutionary struggle for survival, much of the popular wisdom about the psychology of the sexes begins to look a little dated and lame. . .
Men are innately more aggressive than women.
In cultures in which physical aggressiveness was encouraged in girls, they sometimes grew up to be professional warriors. Grave sites she excavated near the Kazakhstan border in Russia contained female skeletons buried with daggers, arrowheads, swords and whetstones for sharpening metal. One of the women has a bent arrowhead lodged in her body cavity, suggesting that she was killed in battle. As Angier notes, and any survivor of the sixth-grade clique wars knows firsthand, the female arsenal includes more insults and snubs that sticks and stones. Men are randier and more promiscuous than women.