Did women's blood lead to men's blood lust?(Sex, Time and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution)(Book Review)

From: Skeptic (Altadena, CA) | Date: June 22, 2004| Author: Callahan, Tim | Copyright information

Sex, Time and Power: Haw Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution by Leonard Shlain. Viking, New York 2003. 420 pp. $25.95 ISBN 0-670-03233-6.

WOMEN'S MENSTRUAL PERIODS, which were timed to lunar phases, gave them the concept of time, thus the ability to conceive of the future, hence the ability to plan ahead. They passed this on to men to make them better hunters, because women needed the iron found in red meat. Eventually, at some time in the Paleolithic, women figured...

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