>The women can feed the children on their own, so the men fight over women not resources. Notably the causality runs in both directions here - the fighting ove

>The women can feed the children on their own, so the men fight over women not resources. Notably the causality runs in both directions here - the fighting over women is what prevents the population from falling into a Malthusian trap. The next time someone tells you that pre-agricultural populations only spent 10 hours a week on work and the rest on leisure or whatever, you should reply asking what percentage of those populations died do to homicide. The answer might be revealing.