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Variation in the amount of game produced or efficiency in hunting by men.
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Research on changes in male hunting among hunter-gatherers addresses two important issues in early human evolution: the nature of the family and trade-offs in mating and parenting effort as well as the development of embodied capital. In the hunter-gatherer literature, there is a debate about the function of male hunting that has implications for understanding the role males play in the evolution of the pair bond. The traditional model argues that male hunting and other economic activities are forms of male provisioning or parenting effort designed to enhance a man’s fitness through his wife’s reproduction and the survivorship of their common children. Thus, it is a component of the traditional division of labor and a foundation for marriage and family. The costly signaling hypothesis (or, “show off”) is an alternative to the provisioning model. It is proposed by Hawkes...
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Hames, R. (2016). Change in Male Hunting Returns. In: Weekes-Shackelford, V., Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_107-1
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