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Why Bison & Berries Bison & Berries is a joke really. With tongue firmly in cheek I often blame our cave-dwelling roots for the differences between the behaviours of men and women. Among my friends this has become known as my Bison & Berries theory. The sheer flexibility and scope in application of the theory is astounding and almost every day it's extended to a new field or phenomena. The theory was first used to explain our shopping habits. I hate idle shopping and window browsing. My partner loves it, and has often embarked upon shopping trips of such staggering proportion as to make geologic timescales look utterly insignificant. I find most men hate shopping unless they're doing it with other men. When they have to do it they know what they want before leaving the nest, they go out, get it and come back. Women don't always know what they want, they browse, look at this, pick up that; and sometimes come home empty-handed but happy. This is hunter gatherer behaviour. A hundred thousand years ago all the men went out together with only one thing on their minds. They didn't like being away because it precluded indulging in the other thing on their minds. They didn't talk much: it scared the bison. They got what they wanted and came home. The women browsed for berries, nuts and seeds. Happy to be away from the brutes, they'd wander slowly so the kids could keep up, nattering among themselves, teaching them vital communication and social skills. They'd look at this, decide it would be riper tomorrow, look at that, collect the other: Bison and Berries
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