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Jiang argues that female sexual agency is not biologically abnormal, citing female-initiated sex in primates, bonobo social sex, and cultures where females initiate sex with males.
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Jiang argues that female sexual agency is not biologically abnormal, citing female-initiated sex in primates, bonobo social sex, and cultures where females initiate sex with males.
Jiang rejects war as the main explanation because bonobos complicate the violent-primate analogy and because archaeology does not show enough early weapons or large intergroup violence.
"...So it's the females that are proactive. You also look at Bonobo's monkeys. Okay? And Bonobo's monkeys, it's interesting because the females are in..."
"...always beating the crap out of each other. But guess what? Bonobos, who are actually closer to us genetically than chimpanzees, they're actually very..."
"We don't find that. So, war, we don't really think is a possibility. Now, it's possible that in the future, we'll find evidence. But..."
"...at chimpanzees and we look at banal bulls. Okay Chimpanzees and bonobos are very close to us genetically, they're the closest to us of..."
Gimbutas's Old Europe becomes Jiang's Paradise Lost: a Mother Goddess civilization where art, writing, sexual agency, and nonviolent social control show that war, property, and patriarchy are historical arrivals, not human nature.
A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central reversal: agriculture was not an obvious leap into progress.
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