Men leaned animal knowledge while women leaned plant knowledge within agricultural lifestyle. Star knowledge knew for self sufficiency hunter gatherers had to know both from each parent which some passed down still. It was when the war of knowledge arose through mens fear because of loss of the ability to alter physiology that women knew. Miracles became mystery.
What kept the genome functioning was recipes. Alchemy couldn’t figure out the formulas so begat trial and error and harmful reverse technology experiments.