Scientists examine why men even exist

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10. But without men,

who would go out and hunt the wooly mammoths while the mother stayed home and cooked and cleaned.



Sexist sarcasm aside, carrying a baby before birth, and caring for a newborn limit mobility, and leave the woman in a significantly more vulnerable position for a period of time during the process. Granted, a society of all women could stagger their child-bearing so that some were always available to do the hunting and heavy lifting while others were slowed down by pregnancy.

Equality of the sexes for humans is certainly possible, but that equality can really only exist with intelligent beings. "Lower" animals in a hostile environment would be severely handicapped by being in a "delicate condition" with no non-delicate partner to provide and protect. The queen could not survive without the worker ants, and without the queen the colony cannot survive. A colony of all queens would be anarchy and chaos, not a colony at all.