Books like The Conquest of Paradise about the European conquest of the native peoples of America claim that compared to the culture of Europe, the “primal communities” of preconquest America were more “harmonious, peaceful, benign and content.” By trading young women for dogs, Tasmanian men managed, in a singularly ill-advised choice, both to reduce their food supply and to exacerbate the most glaring problem in their society, interband fighting over women. Until quite recently, all societies placed the well-being of adults above that of children, especially the very young, and with few exceptions, men have put their interests above those of women.