Paul Eastwick

This is the work that the anthropologists conduct.

I'm a psychologist, not an anthropologist.

But I love their work.

And so what they look at are these neighboring groups, exactly like what you described.

And again, these groups are so small that it's not uncommon that, okay, who's in their, you know, late teenage years looking to partner up?

Oh, whoops, in this group, we got five guys and one woman.

Oh, so four guys are left.

They hit the road and they can travel together, but they keep their ear to the ground.

Where is the balance in the other direction?

Where are there some unpartnered women?

Let's go seek our fortunes elsewhere.

I kind of love that.

I love this idea that, yeah, like we do have this ability to seek out new horizons.

And one cool thing about humans is that's not gendered either.

So if you look at the other apes,

Usually one gender that moves around and it varies whether it's the males or the females that tend to move.

But humans, like if you look at these human hunter gatherer groups, sometimes it's the men that are taken off.

Sometimes there's an abundance of women and the girls look at each other and they say, like, we heard there are some pretty nice looking guys.

They're about 100 miles to the west.

This is going to take us a few days, but time to go.