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The hunting handicap: costly signaling in human foraging strategies
- Rebecca Bliege Bird, E. Smith, D. Bird
- Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
- 2001
Abstract. Humans sometimes forage or distribute the products of foraging in ways that do not maximize individual energetic return rates. As an alternative to hypotheses that rely on reciprocal… Expand
The hunting handicap: costly signaling in human foraging strategies
Humans sometimes forage or distribute the products of foraging in ways that do not maximize indi- vidual energetic return rates. As an alternative to hypoth- eses that rely on reciprocal altruism to… Expand
Delayed Reciprocity and Tolerated Theft: The Behavioral Ecology of Food-Sharing Strategies
- D. Bird
- Sociology
- Current Anthropology
- 1 February 1997
Models derived from behavioral ecology may have the potential to explain a great deal of variability in food-sharing patterns within and between human societies. We use quantitative observational… Expand
The “fire stick farming” hypothesis: Australian Aboriginal foraging strategies, biodiversity, and anthropogenic fire mosaics
- R. Bliege Bird, D. Bird, B. Codding, C. H. Parker, J. Jones
- Geography, Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 30 September 2008
Aboriginal burning in Australia has long been assumed to be a “resource management” strategy, but no quantitative tests of this hypothesis have ever been conducted. We combine ethnographic… Expand
Hunting and Nuclear Families: Some Lessons from the Hadza about Men's Work
- K. Hawkes, J. O'connell, +10 authors G. Wenzel
- Sociology
- 24 October 2001
Hadza hunter-gatherers display economic and social features usually assumed to indicate the dependence of wives and children on provisioning husbands and fathers. The wives and children of better… Expand
Behavioral Ecology and Archaeology
- D. Bird, J. O'connell
- Biology
- 13 June 2006
Behavioral ecology is the study of adaptive behavior in relation to social and environmental circumstances. Analysts working from this perspective hold that the reproductive strategies and… Expand
The benefits of costly signaling: Meriam turtle hunters
Hunting, particularly when it involves large game that is extensively shared, has been suggested to serve as a form of costly signaling by hunters, serving to attract mates and allies or to deter… Expand
Why Women Hunt
- Rebecca Bliege Bird, D. Bird
- Sociology, Medicine
- Current Anthropology
- 1 August 2008
An old anthropological theory ascribes gender differences in hunter‐gatherer subsistence to an economy of scale in household economic production: women pursue child‐care‐compatible tasks and men, of… Expand
Constraints of knowing or constraints of growing?
Recent theoretical models suggest that the difference between human and nonhuman primate life-history patterns may be due to a reliance on complex foraging strategies requiring extensive learning.… Expand
Aboriginal hunting buffers climate-driven fire-size variability in Australia’s spinifex grasslands
- R. Bliege Bird, B. Codding, Peter G. Kauhanen, D. Bird
- Geography, Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 11 June 2012
Across diverse ecosystems, greater climatic variability tends to increase wildfire size, particularly in Australia, where alternating wet–dry cycles increase vegetation growth, only to leave a dry… Expand