NPR Story: For Cave Women, Farmers Had Extra Sex Appeal

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by Richard Harris

“Can a man’s technology make him more attractive to women? A new study says it can. But before you run out and upgrade your smart phone, take note.

The technology in this story includes stone axes and other basic tools of agriculture. And the smitten women are the hunter-gatherers of prehistoric Europe. Those technologies were not simply cutting edge about 10,000 years ago; they were revolutionary.

“You can regard it as the most important cultural change in the history of modern humans,” says Prof. Mark Jobling at the University of Leicester in England. “It allowed people to generate their own food, and populations to grow and society to become specialized.”

It was the foundation of modern civilization and so there’s a big scientific push to understand just how agriculture spread from where it originated, which was in present-day Turkey and Iraq.”

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