It's a shame, because I think it's fascinating. Just... human behavior developed for small bands of hunter-gatherers in Africa. So, most likely:
1. What works for a small group of people doesn't work for us now, because our cultural evolution has vastly outstripped our biological evolution.
2. Even back then, I have a feeling if Bob was being a dick, eventually the tribe would get sick of him and leave him for the lions. Or at least not invite him along on hunts unless they really needed an extra body.
(Also, a lot of evopsych seems to depend on having good animal models. Any similarity we have to our nearest neighbors helps, since we can trace out simpler roots of behavior. Which makes family structure hard, since chimps and bonobos don't have the same structures humans do*.)
* At least the serial monogamy. Well aware that humans have a wide variety of family structures based on culture and resources and the individual human's ability to play nice with others.
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1. What works for a small group of people doesn't work for us now, because our cultural evolution has vastly outstripped our biological evolution.
2. Even back then, I have a feeling if Bob was being a dick, eventually the tribe would get sick of him and leave him for the lions. Or at least not invite him along on hunts unless they really needed an extra body.
(Also, a lot of evopsych seems to depend on having good animal models. Any similarity we have to our nearest neighbors helps, since we can trace out simpler roots of behavior. Which makes family structure hard, since chimps and bonobos don't have the same structures humans do*.)
* At least the serial monogamy. Well aware that humans have a wide variety of family structures based on culture and resources and the individual human's ability to play nice with others.