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Quote #10
Within a family and, after further development, within a tribe, there springs up naturally a division of labour caused by differences of sex and age, and therefore based on a purely physiological foundation. (14.4.3)
Marx thinks the earliest division of labor arose from differences between male and female, young and old. He might say that young men are stronger and more likely to work as hunters than old women, for example.