John Tooby's compressed test for cultural vs. evolutionary explanations: the claim that culture explains human variation will be taken seriously when there are reports of women war parties raiding villages to capture men as husbands. The move flips the burden of proof on cultural accounts of sex-differentiated behavior — if the deepest sex-typed pattern in the anthropological record (male coalitional raiding) is universal, then explaining it away as 'culture' requires showing the reverse is equally available and just not chosen.
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