The people of the Corded Ware/Bell beaker culture are known to have been mostly tribes of men who were highly mobile. When they moved into a new region they seized all the women, almost certainly by force.
A recent study in Iberia, just as one example, shows that 100% of the male lineages, but only 40% of the total genepool were replaced by the incoming people. The other 60% is the genetic legacy of the Iberian women they had impregnated.
That men can act in this way is no surprise at all, just look at the mass rape every time there is a war. What I am interested in is the psychological adaptations that women must have evolved in order to deal with this.
To raise children they must have soon learnt to accept the new situation even though their fathers, brothers, and perhaps previous husbands were dead or enslaved. That must imply some sort of psychological traits that are special to women. Is there scientific support for this? What about in apes?
A recent study in Iberia, just as one example, shows that 100% of the male lineages, but only 40% of the total genepool were replaced by the incoming people. The other 60% is the genetic legacy of the Iberian women they had impregnated.
That men can act in this way is no surprise at all, just look at the mass rape every time there is a war. What I am interested in is the psychological adaptations that women must have evolved in order to deal with this.
To raise children they must have soon learnt to accept the new situation even though their fathers, brothers, and perhaps previous husbands were dead or enslaved. That must imply some sort of psychological traits that are special to women. Is there scientific support for this? What about in apes?
