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* [[Does Not Like Men]]: Attaroa, a villain from the fourth book, who was apparently married to a half-Clan husband. He treated her with about the same level of respect Broud treated Ayla, and Attaroa liked it about as much. She became a violently misandric nutjob thereafter, locking all her camp's men in a pen and working them to death.
* [[A Dog Named "Dog"]]: Ayla gets a pet named Wolf. Guess what kind of animal he is.
* [[Doorstopper]]: 6 books, each ranging from
* [[Dramatis Personae]]
* [[Dystopia]]: Attaroa's band of S'Armunai has turned into a bizarre nightmare where men are kept in a large filthy cage with little food and no medicine, and slowly worked to death. The women are supposed to be the rulers -- except talking to men isn't allowed (let alone physical intimacy with your former husband), giving birth to a boy is punishable by death, and the boys themselves are subjected to horrific fates. Attaroa's also incompetent, so they're nearly out of food. Really, the whole thing is just a show for Attaroa's sadistic megalomania. Though they try to pretend they're happy (complaining and disobedience are punished by hurting one's male relatives), many women get sick of it.
* [[Eternal Sexual Freedom]]: And how! Nobody has any concept of illegitimate offspring (fatherhood not having been discovered), nor have communicable diseases been figured out yet. Consequently, both Others and Clan have fairly lax sexual norms. A certain amount of partner-rotation is permissible amongst the Others, and before you get married you get to play the field.
:In the Clan there is a hand-sign, that can only be made by men, which indicates the man wants to "relieve his needs" and the woman should drop whatever she's doing and immediately present for intercourse. It is implied that the women find this just as enjoyable as the men do. Oh, and the Clan women have found herbal versions of hormonal contraceptives, but usually do not prescribe them unless a woman might die if she gets pregnant again. And while it's considered unlucky for an unmated woman to give birth and they will try to pair her off before, only two characters are known to have connected sex with reproduction so far. (One of them is, of course, [[Mary Sue|Ayla]].)
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* [[Explicit Content]]: This series has a great deal of story and most of the content is entirely non-sexual, but most sex scenes are unnecessarily detailed.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Race relations and racism are a major theme of the series. The Others call the Clan "flatheads" and claim they're animals related to bears, but despise them as unclean monsters in a stark departure from their attitudes towards actual animals (a hypocrisy Ayla points out to them). The Clan just think the Others are noisy, bizarre, and dangerous, and try to avoid them.
* [[Fee Fi Faux Pas]]: Particularly during the first book, during which Ayla usually does whatever she wants to, even if it's in direct defiance of Clan traditions. (Of course, at one point she goes so far over the line that they curse her with death. {{spoiler|She's so cool, she outlives the death curse. Also, she's cursed again, and there are five more books!}}
* [[The Film of the Book]]: For the first novel, starring [[Blade Runner|Daryl Hannah]] as Ayla.
* [[First Girl Wins|First Guy Wins]]: Ayla's longtime love, and the father of her daughter, is literally the first man of "the Others" (that is, a Cro-Magnon like Ayla herself) she meets.
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* [[Florence Nightingale Effect]]: Thonolan falls in love with his future wife Jetamio this way. He's {{spoiler|attacked by a rhino}}, and she helps the healer attend him. He almost immediately becomes infatuated. Jondalar and Ayla also meet this way, after {{spoiler|her pet lion mauls him.}}
* [[Fluffy the Terrible]]: Ayla's pet lion cub grows up to be the hugest, most well-nourished cave lion in Ukraine, and terrifies everybody who sees him. His name is Baby.
* [[Gendercide]]: This is Attaroa's ultimate goal for her people, using a concentration camp and forced labor as an intermediary step. She thinks women will just give birth to girls after all the men die.
* [[Gender Is No Object]]: All of the Others (except the violently misandric band of S'Armunai encountered by the protagonists).
* [[Gender-Restricted Ability]]: The Clan have built-in gender restrictions on learning totally mundane skills necessary for survival: men cannot learn to cook, tan leather, make clothes, find edible plants, or practice medicine. Clan women cannot learn to hunt or make weapons. This is explained as a trade-off that evolved along with their [[Genetic Memory]], but it makes them unable to survive alone even briefly.
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