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Historically, women had to [[Bateman's principle|invest more]] into their offspring than men because pregnancy used to be physically risky,<ref>The maternal death rate used to be 1 in 100 births, but in modern societies it is around 10 / 100,000, so a hundred times lower. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternal_death#cite_note-47</ref> and by virtue of having a womb, women had more natural responsibility over children. | Historically, women had to [[Bateman's principle|invest more]] into their offspring than men because pregnancy used to be physically risky,<ref>The maternal death rate used to be 1 in 100 births, but in modern societies it is around 10 / 100,000, so a hundred times lower. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternal_death#cite_note-47</ref> and by virtue of having a womb, women had more natural responsibility over children. | ||
As a result, women evolved to be [[libido|choosy and coy]] and they specialized in childcare and extracting resources from men. | As a result, women evolved to be [[libido|choosy and coy]] and they specialized in childcare and extracting resources from men. | ||
The amount of resources men provide is quite extreme compared to most animals and unique among primates, with men providing twice as much calories in hunter-gatherers than women and exclusively providing the more | The amount of resources men provide is quite extreme compared to most animals and unique among primates, with men providing twice as much calories in hunter-gatherers than women and exclusively providing the more nutrient dense meat from hunting, which men used to get mating opportunities and invest into offspring and their mate ever since.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016748701630277X</ref><ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1090513810000279</ref><ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill_(Supplemental)#In_hunter-gatherers.2C_men_use_meat_to_obtain_mating_opportunities_and_to_invest_in_mates_and_offspring</ref> The importance of resources to women is apparent even in egalitarian societies such as the Ache and the Sharanahua, where the best hunters are able to attract the most sexual partners.<ref>https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/bbf7/77fbe21100d32ebd55a41b65de7151628235.pdf (Cashdan 1996)</ref> | ||
===The principle of least interest=== | ===The principle of least interest=== | ||