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Low-population poor societies may use dispersed sex and disguised paternity to create shared male investment in children.
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Low-population poor societies may use dispersed sex and disguised paternity to create shared male investment in children.
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Jiang uses Sex at Dawn to argue that women’s sexual agency and nonexclusive sexuality were common for most of human history and could support social harmony.
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He presents the patriarchal family/property model as historically false for much of human history, arguing that women had bodily autonomy and diffuse paternity supported social cohesion and shared child care.
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Jiang argues that when fatherhood is not exclusive or known, responsibility for children spreads across the whole community.
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"They don't understand what germs are. So it's very easy for a woman to die in childbirth. Okay? And low competition. Low competition just..."
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"...woman will also choose to sleep with other men to disguise paternity. Does it make sense?"
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"So there's no dating there's just lots and lots of sex in order to maintain social cohesion. Okay? Now in a superstructure number two..."
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"Okay? So this is Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan. And he tries to show us that for most of human history, women had..."
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"Okay? And that's a way to maintain peace and harmony in your society. Okay? If a woman is allowed to marry many brothers together...."
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"be different we want we want to be creative the third thing is we are curious and want to explore and that's what explains..."
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"charge of their property and women are in charge and women are just animals to breed babies okay that's not true for most of..."
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"knows who the fathers are everything starts over for caring for for taking care of every single child and that's the best strategy that..."
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"Any questions so far? I know this is controversial, but I'm just trying to show you how our cultural beliefs is radically different from..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on why the so-called barbarians repeatedly defeat civilization: empires turn innovation into bureaucracy, while the steppe turns geography, animals, inheritance, oath, myth, and violence into mobile social power.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's dawn-of-humanity lecture: Darwinism becomes a rival theology, cave art becomes a portal, speech begins as song, and modern society is accused of socializing people out of empathy.
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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.
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