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Who said that? Elle never said that. You've missed the mark in here, I think.

It wasn't that men had no paternal relationships with theie children in prehistory. They were just responsible and 'fatherly' toward ALL the children of the tribe, with particular time and attention to what you could call the children of his hearth. His mates children, regardless of who their sperm donor was.

In other words, being a father wasn't contingent on DNA until Patriarchy came along and limited it to that.

Allan Milne Lee just wrote an essay that tangentally talks about this, in a modern situation. His.