The role of women in culture

From: originsearch (manel__at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/21/05 

Date: 21 Mar 2005 03:15:42 -0800

It's often thought that women had a passive role into the origins of
culture and that a male dominated society would have relied on male
kinship for this.

New publications reveal that it was female kinship that triggered brain
development and socio-political organization amongst the first
primates, bringing into light a cooperation of both sexes into the
development of culture.