« As in chimpanzees and bonobos and in contemporary societies, prehistoric societies were mainly patrilocal with various forms of residence and parentage for women and men. The closer women resided to their families, the less likely they were to be violent and vice versa. The more people in society admit private spaces, the more likely women are to experience domestic violence. In living conditions with high seasonal variations in resources and periods of stress, women are more likely to experience violence. »

« In chimpanzees, not to mention task division, it can be said that it is the females who appropriate the techniques concerning tools and food. Males are less interested and prefer power games, hunting and intergroup aggression. While male chimpanzees do not exert coercion on technical objects and their use, men invent forms of coercion on tasks, tools, modes of production, etc. When did the sexual division of tasks in human populations take place: the first men? Homo erectus? The human species of the Middle Paleolithic - Neanderthals, Denisovans, Sapiens? Man is not limited to the tool, but men have invented coercion through techniques and their uses. Whether it was the first tools of cut stone or all the art forms of prehistory and protohistory, it is not known who made them, women, men or both, not to mention distinctions by age groups. It is not known whether there was a separation of all or part of these craft and/or artistic activities. Archaeological and osteological data do not identify differences in activity, other than from the Upper Paleolithic, for example, with the bone trauma of the elbow associated with the throw. (The anatomy of the Neanderthals' shoulder and arm gave them great strength for throwing. This may not have caused any trauma to the elbow.) »

« Comparative ethology highlights the recurrence of a fact that, at first glance, may surprise. Precopulation coercion promotes privileged access for males who practice them to a female when, some time later, she becomes sexually receptive. Harassment operates on a regime of fear conditioning the female who, in view of what she has suffered, protects herself from other possibly more violent assaults. This mechanism, which seems very archaic from a behavioral and psychological point of view, is observed in several species of monkeys, great apes... and in men. »