Growth rates and life histories in twenty‐two small‐scale societies
- Robert Walker, M. Gurven, T. Yamauchi
- BiologyAmerican Journal of Human Biology
- 1 May 2006
In sum, the origin and maintenance of different human ontogenies may require explanations invoking both environmental constraints and selective pressures.
The ecologically noble savage debate
- R. Hames
- Sociology
- 28 September 2007
Debate around the ecologically noble savage represents two markedly different research threads. The first addresses the issue of conservation among native peoples and narrowly focuses on case studies…
Hunting and Nuclear Families: Some Lessons from the Hadza about Men's Work
- K. Hawkes, J. O'connell, G. Wenzel
- Economics
- 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…
A comparison of the efficiencies of the shotgun and the bow in neotropical forest hunting
- R. Hames
- Political Science
- 1 September 1979
Whenever introduced into Amazonia and its neighboring regions, the shotgun has quickly replaced the bow and arrow and other aboriginal weapons of the hunt. The quick and widespread adoption of the…
Optimal diet breadth theory as a model to explain variability in Amazonian hunting
- R. Hames, W. Vickers
- Environmental Science
- 1 May 1982
Optimal foraging theory is a set of related models from evolutionary ecology that predict the range and proportions of food items a predator should consume (diet breadth), where and how long it…
Yanomami: The Fierce Controversy and What We Can Learn from It
- R. Borofsky, B. Albert, Terence S. Turner
- Education
- 31 January 2005
A Note to Teachers A Personal Note to Undergraduates Suggested Yanomami/Yanomamo Films Helping the Yanomami Map PART I 1 The Controversy and the Broader Issues at Stake 2 Chagnon and Tierney in Their…
Birth order, sibling investment, and fertility among Ju/’Hoansi (!Kung)
It is found that being born late in an egalitarian, technologically simple society rather than being born early has a positive outcome on fertility, and that number of older siblings and sibling set size are even stronger predictors of fertility, especially for males.
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