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This chapter proposes that human surplus labor originated from reproductive labor in an Adam and Eve-like event, in the process creating the human society as a generalized reproductive platform, and making economy the special human ecology. It is further suggested that it was the investment of a surplus from female gathering that made the development of male hunting possible in the first place, thus making hunters and gatherers the first societal formation in human prehistory.
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Engelsted, N. (2017). The Secret of the Human Being. In: Catching Up With Aristotle . SpringerBriefs in Psychology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51088-0_10
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