The Ultimate Body Language Book

We rarely catch women checking men out because they can always see the ‘whole picture’ unlike men
and their predatory hunter eyes.
Eyeball assault! Predator alert!
The hunter gatherer theory of human sex differences describes that men have evolved to be hunters
whereas women have evolved to be gatherers. By this theory, the brains of men and the brains of
women have been created under different selection pressures. The female mind was focused on
language and communication especially between other females (gossip) and on searching out multiple
food items, such as berries, vegetables and nuts. Men where more focused on tracking down prey, a
single item, and used far less dialogue since talking too much might upset the animals they were
pursuit. Once a successful plan was hatched amongst a group a men, spoken words were no longer
necessary. Women, on the other hand, had to keep each other abreast of which fruits were in season and
their location. The research supports this as women use landmarks and memorize routes to connect
familiar places to navigate, even in cities, whereas men use more spatial factors such as direction of
travel and the patterns of the roads themselves. Presumably it would be easier to describe to someone
else how to go about finding berries in the wilderness through landmarks over a sense of the hills and
terrain. For women, the food they gather doesn’t move, but men needed to be move about and orient an
environment that was always changing based on the prey they were hunting and the season. Landmarks
while hunting become useless when in new areas.
Men also tend to score higher on three-dimensional tasks such as moving an object in their minds to
match similar items, a task called “mental rotation”. This spatial skill is attributed to throwing accuracy
as one might use to fall moving prey. In tests, women perform better on language oriented tasks such as
verbal memory and verbal recognition of sounds. Gossip amongst women around camp would have
played a key role to protect unity, maintain peace and uncover dissenters. Women have also been
shown to be more proficient at using both hemispheres of their brains since their left and right sides are
better connected. Women can therefore use their minds more fully and draw from many centers of their
brain.
The ability to use both hemispheres makes it much easier for women to work out complex relationships
between people and their environment simultaneously. It fascinates me to listen to my wife click away