bind the members of a breeding community.
The perception of anisogamy pursued in this book is consistent with this view. Just as the joining of the sperm and egg at conception requires a mutually active partnership, so the evolution of human society required the successful integration of male and female reproductive strategies. In the words of Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha: “There’s no denying that men and women are different, but we’re hardly different species or from different planets or designed to torment one another. In fact, the interlocking nature of our differences testifies to our profound mutuality” (2010: 270).
Models of why and how intersexual partnerships evolved need not be based on notions of conflict, parasitism, dominance, gender stereotypes, or zero-sum games. Rather, human advancement relied more on brains than brawn—that is, on the liberation of males and females from primitive limbic system responses and the corresponding ability to modify their behaviors and structure their alliances in ways that furthered their respective reproductive goals. The next chapter challenges prevailing theories on the nature of proto-human society and offers an alternative model of how ancient multimale-multifemale communities evolved on the basis of cooperative intra- and intersexual alliance.
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