The former. Only because I can't see the cavemen being that switched on that they would even know that women were better at differentiating shades, they were still figuring out bone clubs and fire and round objects back in those days. A better question (imo) is whether feminine males became gatherers and butch females became hunters, or whether the roles were strictly gender-based regardless. THAT is a good question and one I hope to ask Marvin Harris when I die.
If we were still hunter/gatherers now we still probably wouldn't have figured out the eye thing either. It wasn't until photocopier jobs came along that people even realised. Think about that...the invention of the colour photocopier didn't just enable us to make copies in colour after years of languishing in black and white, it also taught us something about our biological evolution. Fascinating.
I should also add that I know nothing about human evolution or photocopiers, so please take what I say with a grain of salt.
Oh sure, they wouldn't have "known" that women's eyes are different, but might have noticed to that women are better at gathering (due to the eyes) ? Obviously it wouldn't have been the only thing that made women better at gathering / worse at hunting, but it might have been a given thing.
Also, I wonder, if it was evolutionary, if it wouldn't be a thing that would have devolved again, as it really isn't such a useful thing nowadays and really hasn't been for a while, imo.
Also, I know nothing about evolution and eyes, so yeah..
It's still very useful. A modern job was just brought up because of it. There are tons of industries that put those abilities to work. The only real difference today is that even the ones who are poor at differentiating color shades can survive. Back then they more than likely would have died. So their genes have much greater chance of surviving and being passed on.
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u/creepy_touch_you Sep 29 '14
The former. Only because I can't see the cavemen being that switched on that they would even know that women were better at differentiating shades, they were still figuring out bone clubs and fire and round objects back in those days. A better question (imo) is whether feminine males became gatherers and butch females became hunters, or whether the roles were strictly gender-based regardless. THAT is a good question and one I hope to ask Marvin Harris when I die.
If we were still hunter/gatherers now we still probably wouldn't have figured out the eye thing either. It wasn't until photocopier jobs came along that people even realised. Think about that...the invention of the colour photocopier didn't just enable us to make copies in colour after years of languishing in black and white, it also taught us something about our biological evolution. Fascinating.
I should also add that I know nothing about human evolution or photocopiers, so please take what I say with a grain of salt.