Chapter 215 A Fragile Bond

His question, the five demons looked at him for a moment, then turned to the northwest.

There are many demon forces around this demon city.

Some are composed of a few individuals, and some are small groups formed by dozens of demons. As for the composition, they are basically a mother and her offspring.

Even in a farther place, there is a medium-to-large demon gathering place with hundreds of individuals.

However, the scale is limited to this.

There are no specialized individuals like breeders and producers in this demon society, which provide food. Even if the amount of food that demons need to obtain through eating is much less than that of creatures of the same size, it is not equal to zero.

Of course, it is not ruled out that there are individuals among them who will take a similar path as the breeders and producers of this demon city.

But Yao Yan's goal is not here.

He just intends to rely on the attack of this demon city, and even promote their attack on other demons and settlements, expand the scale, and collect relevant information on various human civilizations.

On Lijier's side, he is also inducing Lijier to take a detour and avoid the hunting range of this demon city.

Whether it is "don't put all your eggs in one basket" or "multiple choices mean multiple paths", they are all the superficial truths that support his current choice.

Under Yao Yan's guidance, the gene hunters who switched their targets to other demon forces also turned and left, heading towards their destination.

The destination chosen by the gene hunters is at the edge of a forest.

There is a small river running through the interior of the forest.

The demons who have specialized into "gene hunters" all cast their eyes towards the distant forest.

Before, demons who specialized into reconnaissance, search, and patrol would patrol the area around the demon city every day for confirmation.

In the forest here, there is a demon group that exists in a family structure.

Compared with ordinary demons, these demons did not leave their mothers when they were sub-adults, but continued to use their mothers as a link to establish a group.

Yao Yan's eyes swept across the forest.

Using the mother as a link does not mean that the mother has a high status.

In a primitive society where violence is respected, strength is power.

Especially when other demons can give birth to children by themselves, the bond of "mother" becomes more fragile.

In the human history of his time, it was difficult to identify whether one's child was one's own because of group marriage, and the mother was the best way to identify.

I don't know who the father is, but I am sure that the mother is.

This is the so-called "matriarchal society".

As for whether the matriarchal society is matriarchal or feminist? Yao Yan cannot be sure, and most of the archaeological studies he knows do not have the answer.

Because of the difference between male and female individuals, men are more likely to grow muscles and women are more likely to grow fat.

In primitive society, most men are stronger than women.

Just like wild animals, it is more likely to control the power of resource allocation in primitive tribes.

It is easy for people to confuse the issues of "patrilineage" and "patriarchy".

The patrilineal system uses the father as a bond to identify kinship, which is not the same concept as patriarchy.

Because it is impossible to confirm whether the offspring belongs to oneself, if you want to confirm it, you can only ensure that your spouse has only mated with you.

In this way, "possessing spouse" is formed.

When the group marriage system came to an end and the structure of "possessing spouses" came into being, when one could confirm that the offspring belonged to oneself, it was "patrilineal".

However, "possessing spouses" requires power guarantee.

For the patrilineal system, it is either completely monogamous or polygamous like animals such as lions.

For the matrilineal system, there is no need for any special structure to ensure that the offspring belong to oneself.

It was not until the emergence of the technology of surrogacy in modern times that there was a threat of "the child does not belong to the mother".

Most patrilineal systems are accompanied by patriarchy.

Matrilineal systems are not accompanied by maternal authority.

The animal instincts of primitive society made them focus on "offspring".

The so-called matrilineal and patrilineal systems are all based on the possession of offspring.

In modern times, "female rights" and "male rights" are based on the possession of spouses by both spouses.

Later, it developed to non-spousal men and women, and became the superiority of "female" and "male".

There were too many debates about these issues of female rights and male rights in Yao Yan's lifetime.

Including debates between matrilineal and patrilineal societies.

However, Yao Yan is very clear that the key point has nothing to do with matriarchal society and patriarchal society. In essence, the two opposing parties project their gender onto "matriarchy" and "patriarchy".

If the matriarchal or patriarchal system "wins", it is their own victory.

However, they have not figured out the difference between "system" and "power".

They use the characteristics of "patriarchy" as a trigger point and believe that patriarchy and patriarchy are consistent.

If it is patriarchy, then the father must have a high status, and then the male has a high status.

Therefore, if it is matriarchy, then the mother has a high status, and then the female has a high status.

The "status consciousness" formed by the human subconscious for "resource possession" has been entrenched in human consciousness since its emergence.

This is a concept that plays an important role in human consciousness, human culture, and human thought.

There are many cultural-related creations that are more or less involved.

It's a pity that they often don't realize what determines "resource possession".

A monkey group confronts another monkey group, and then the monkeys in the group that do not have any resources use "male" and "female" as the criteria for resource possession, and ignore the monkey king who has the vast majority of resources.

A group of monkeys with low status and lack of resources fight each other to death.

Yao Yan knows very well that in his time, many people did not know this, but chose to subconsciously avoid this issue because of "powerlessness", "difficulty", "inability to do", and "inability to change".

It is the nature of creatures to bully the weak and fear the strong.

However, in this demon world, it is different.

Because demons have the characteristic of "being able to integrate genes" and have no gender differentiation, "individual differences" are magnified a lot.

The result of natural competition of "violence first".

The "mother" of the demon is just a bond.

Demons themselves lack collectivism, and they will not feel uneasy like humans who lack communication with their own kind.

"Family affection" itself is "collectivism", a variant of collectivism hidden in genes.

The same is true for "spouse". If they can produce offspring on their own, spouses have no special meaning to them.

For demons, "because they are mothers, they have a high status"?

Such a concept does not exist.

There are more reasons than this.