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May 14, 2023·edited May 14, 2023Liked by Leo Littlebook

I'd like to specify something with regards to chimp cohesion, compared to bonobo's. Someone said "Bonobos have better cohesion than chimps", this has been shown to be incorrect. Chimpanzees cooperate and share information better, and are more willing to do so than individualistic atomized bonobos.

https://www.mpg.de/15014355/in-the-wild-chimpanzees-are-more-motivated-to-cooperate-than-bonobos

"When informing about a threat territorial chimpanzees are more motivated to cooperate than less territorial bonobos"

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The point is that humans would die in any areas of significant winter w/o preparation (food, shelter, energy, etc.) this changes behavioral patterns in a more significant way than any stress-tolerator trait

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Surviving winter is a stress tolerator trait.

> Conifers are “archetypical stress tolerators” (Brodribb et al. 2012), and their xylem structure plays a key role in enabling them to survive in stressful habitats.

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What’s more patriarchal than a society in which men force women, a commodity lower than cattle, to do all the work (pre-Christian native men from the same warm climate as the above chimps)?

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If the men are not working because they lack paternal certainty, it is probably not patriarchal.

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Matriarchy is hypergamous. The alphas don't care about the individual women much.

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Neither species needs to think about the future, because they live in the hot lands, where our civilian has never taken root. Our home is the cold lands where like ants and bees, we must plan 12 months into the future just to survive, with each individual bearing part of the division of labour. This is reflected in how we choose mates: “One woman is trouble enough!” (In studying primitive cultures such as in modern America it is easy to lose sight of who we truly are).

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Cold-weather adaptation is a stress-tolerator trait.

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