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thenewgreen · 4018 days ago · link · · parent · post: Female promiscuity in primates: When do women have multiple partners?
More than 30 years of subsequent research has confirmed Hrdy’s findings and expanded on them to reveal that females in many primate species, humans included, engage in a diversity of sexual strategies to enhance their overall reproductive success.
-Good to see Dr. Hrdy's get her due. How much of the resistance to her research do you think was prompted by a resistance to the idea that human females could be innately promiscuous? -A scary thought for most men and for a long time men have dominated the sciences. How many other assumptions in science and society are colored by willful ignorance, I wonder?