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This diagram depicts the complete #revolution in #human #social organisation. #Baboon sexes virtually overlap (males map onto where females make a living). By total contrast, #Hadza women forage in their space and send men all over the landscape to fetch stuff for them and the kids!

That my friends is the Human Revolution in action!
Every day, Hadza way. The most memorable lecture I took part in my whole working life at Uni of East London was together with a couple of Hadza guys teaching on the 2nd year 'Origins of culture' course. They took us through the extraordinary article by Marshall Sahlins from 1960 on 'Origins of Society'. Sahlins used some quite dodgy data to compare baboon behaviours with human hunter-gatherers. My Hadza friends Athumani and Abeli of course had much greater knowledge of baboons! They had plenty to say (in KiSwahili, I translated for the class) on similarities and differences. There are significant myths for the Hadza thinking of baboons as close relatives who took a different path. Between them, Sahlins -- his neat idea that the revolutionary switch was from sex organising society to society organising sex -- and the Hadza hunters were giving UEL students the best possible education on what made us human. If only I made a recording of that lecture that day (October 2004).

Western scientists led by expert of Hadza studies Brian Wood, are catching up! Co-authors importantly include Hadza scholar Mariamu #Anyawire.

#Hadzabe #huntergatherers #humanrevolution

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2022.0521