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Your link is broken. I believe you intended to link to https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2113891119

Separate from this topic, but elsewhere I attempted to convey some of your ideas to a skeptic ("Tove K"), who had this question for you:

https://woodfromeden.substack.com/p/the-origins-of-patriarchy/comment/12659868

"I guess Dr Evans means that hoe agriculture systems have the potential to free women because when women are supposed to work, they will sooner or later be allowed to work outside of their homes and there they will find autonomy and female solidarity. If I get it right, she means something like if Africa just finally develops modern labor markets, women will take formal jobs away from home and be liberated. Since there is already a culture of female labor, only a dose of economic development needs to be added to free those women?"

Based on this post I would guess you would say that religion is a factor Tove K has passed over, but also that religious restrictions are not constant and could change, as they did in the west.

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