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A 3 page review of author Margaret Ehrenberg's views on the emergence of gender roles in mankind's evolution. Published in editors Caroline B. Brettell and Carolyn F. Sargent anthology titled "Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective", this article questions the traditional anthropological explanation of women's role in evolution. No additional sources are listed.
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the importance of gender and how that importance has changed over time. Editors Caroline B. Brettell and Carolyn F. Sargent bring together many of these authors in the anthology
titled "Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective". One of the more interesting of those authors is Margaret Ehrenberg. In the article titled "The Role of Women in Human Evolution" Ehrenberg
addresses gender roles from the perspective of how it has developed since mankind made the first appearance on earth. Ehrenberg (2001) is not content with the traditional anthropological perspective
of mens verses womens evolutionary development as they occurred in relation to their respective familial roles, however. From the more traditional view mans evolution was just that, "mans" evolution!
The women are too often viewed as sitting back home while their male partners developed such skills as cooperation and better physical and mental agility. Ehrenberg (2001), however,
pulls on recent studies in both physical anthropology and animal behavior to present a different picture of gender roles as they have evolved over time as a rigid system for
a division of labor arose. Ehrenberg (2001) first notes several changes in physical attributes that occurred in humans as a whole over time.
These changes included an increase in brain size, changes in teeth, a transition from walking on all fours to walking on two legs, and a loss of body hair
(Ehrenberg, 2001). Interestingly, there was a transition away from sexual dimorphism (Ehrenberg, 2001)! As humans evolved there was less and less difference between male and female body size
(Ehrenberg, 2001). Ehrenberg (2001) correlates the loss of body hair that occurred over time with the need for females to devote their arms and hands to holding their infants.
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