FTFY
Not a criticism of you at all. I just find it amazing that this is something people think of as strangely at odds with expectation instead of an intuitive fact.
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What @anon36081309 said. It’s in service of preserving the Patriarchy’s power in society.
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Obvious to you and I, who have not been comprehensively indoctrinated to believe that group selection is a heretical and wrong theory, that must be discredited For Science. 
Similar situation: Anthropologists, historians and sociologists have been taught for nearly 100 years that chariot-building happened before horseback riding, which is highly counterintuitive for the average horse-savvy layman. The excellent textbook The Horse, The Wheel, and Language provides extremely strong evidence contradicting the previously dominant, very weak evidence for chariots coming first. But after a lifetime of confirming the accepted dogma, many scientists find themselves unable to accept the newly discovered physical evidence that invalidates so much published work, and so remain deniers. The situation is very similar with group selection theory.
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