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The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong
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this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2024
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It's an unacceptable leap in logic to infer (from that statement) anything about populations of men and women. You've picked only a single sample from each population and chosen that highly biased representative.
That set is inclusive of every official marathon ever ran, so no it is not a single sample. We see consistently that the women's record always is slower than the men's record.
Fair, but it's also limited to the very top of the bell curve at any point in time.