The problem is even bigger than the modern assumption taken for...

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    The problem is even bigger than the modern assumption taken for granted that ancient humans were good capitalists. As Chris Knight says, it was generally agreed by all anthropologists in the nineteenth century that all of human society had been matrilineal at some point in the distant past and that the modern nuclear family was a recent phenomenon. There is generally the group marriage, and all women in the group are considered to be the child's mother, all children considered to be siblings. This The father or lover would have no authority if he was even known with any certainty as he was part of another lodging with his own mother and sisters, as Morgan documented with the Iriquois, and also in Australia.
 
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