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The Descent of Woman by Elaine Morgan6/24/2023 ![]() They had two options: Go directly to a leopard's dinner plate and become the meal, or go into the water. Our ancestors of long ago had to escape the ecological adversities of the African continent. Was it 10 million -years-ago? We may never know as the evidence was lost in the water. And she begins her evolutionary story on the day after we broke-away from the common ancestor humanity shares with the chimpanzees. ![]() Finally one day, Elaine Morgan wrote her book, "The DESCENT of WOMAN". In the next century, philosopher Bronowski followed-up with his book, "The ASCENT of MAN". In the 19th century, Charles Darwin wrote, "The DESCENT of MAN". Women do not hunt in Western culture, so therefore, were never important. And you will also find that there were no women in the evolutionary process. Descend into a new evolutionary perspectiveīefore Australopithecus of 4 million-years-ago, who were the men and women? If you read most literature on the subject, you will find this issue mysteriously omitted as the focus is after the date of the footprints of Laetoli, Africa. ![]()
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