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  2. Evolution of morality - Wikipedia

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    Morality may have evolved in these bands of 100 to 200 people as a means of social control, conflict resolution and group solidarity. This numerical limit is theorized to be hard coded in our genes since even modern humans have difficulty maintaining stable social relationships with more than 100–200 people .

  3. Sociocultural evolution - Wikipedia

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    Ferdinand Tönnies (1855–1936) describes evolution as the development from informal society, where people have many liberties and there are few laws and obligations, to modern, formal rational society, dominated by traditions and laws, where people are restricted from acting as they wish. [56]

  4. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

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    Antoinette Blackwell, one of the first women to write a critique of Darwin. Darwin's theories of evolution by natural selection were used to try to show women's place in society was the result of nature. [33] One of the first women to critique Darwin, Antoinette Brown Blackwell published The Sexes Throughout Nature in 1875. [34]

  5. Moral development - Wikipedia

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    At this stage people are contemplating what makes a good society rather than just what makes a society run smoothly. Stage 6, Universal Principles is the last stage which interprets the foundation of justice [ 51 ] [ full citation needed ] Kohlberg completed a 20-year study and found that most 30-year-old adults were at stage 3 and 4, the ...

  6. Origins of society - Wikipedia

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    His primary interest was the position of women in early society, and — in particular — Morgan's insistence that the matrilineal clan preceded the family as society's fundamental unit. 'The mother-right gens', wrote Engels in his survey of contemporary historical materialist scholarship, 'has become the pivot around which the entire science ...

  7. History of human sexuality - Wikipedia

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    The pill was illegal in many countries, including the United States and Canada, as the notion that women could prevent pregnancy with a medication incited fear in many people due to misogynistic views on women and their roles as birth givers. [57] The United States Supreme Court legalized the pill for unmarried people in 1974 with Eisenstadt v.

  8. The history of women in real estate - AOL

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    Key takeaways. Women in the U.S. were not allowed to finance real estate purchases without a husband or male co-signer until the 1970s. More than 60 percent of all Realtors and property managers ...

  9. Patriarchy - Wikipedia

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    The works of Aristotle portrayed women as morally, intellectually, and physically inferior to men; saw women as the property of men; claimed that women's role in society was to reproduce and to serve men in the household; and saw male domination of women as natural and virtuous. [43] [44] [45]