Random thought of the day

[curgoth]

If we assume that the commonly accpeted idea about early man is correct, that men were hunters and women gatherers, I wonder how much of that was simply because men are much more likely to be colour-blind, and therefore have a harder time differentiating bewteen poisonous and non-poisonous gathered food.

Comments

[kalivor.livejournal.com]

I would think that it was because the women would need to breast feed the baby, and babies have a higher survival rate when brought gathering, as opposed to hunting ...

[curgoth]

I always forget about the breats feeding...