Blood Relations Menstruation and the Origins of Culture

Integrating perspectives of evolutionary biology and social anthropology within a Marxist framework, the author rejects the assumption that human culture is an extension of primate behaviour and argues that it is the product of a social, sexual and political revolution spearheaded by women.



This original and ingenious book presents a new theory of the origins of human culture. Integrating perspectives of evolutionary biology and social anthropology within a Marxist framework, Chris Knight rejects the common assumption that human culture was a modified extension of primate behavior and argues instead that it was the product of an immense social, sexual, and political revolution initiated by women.