The life history of human foraging: Cross-cultural and individual variation
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The life history of human foraging : Cross-cultural and individual variation. / Koster, Jeremy; McElreath, Richard; Hill, Kim; Yu, Douglas; Shepard, Glenn; Van Vliet, Nathalie; Gurven, Michael; Trumble, Benjamin; Bird, Rebecca Bliege; Bird, Douglas; Codding, Brian; Coad, Lauren; Pacheco-Cobos, Luis; Winterhalder, Bruce; Lupo, Karen; Schmitt, Dave; Sillitoe, Paul; Franzen, Margaret; Alvard, Michael; Venkataraman, Vivek; Kraft, Thomas; Endicott, Kirk; Beckerman, Stephen; Marks, Stuart A.; Headland, Thomas; Pangau-Adam, Margaretha; Siren, Anders; Kramer, Karen; Greaves, Russell; Reyes-García, Victoria; Guèze, Maximilien; Duda, Romain; Fernández-Llamazares, Álvaro; Gallois, Sandrine; Napitupulu, Lucentezza; Ellen, Roy; Ziker, John; Nielsen, Martin R.; Ready, Elspeth; Healey, Christopher; Ross, Cody.
In: Science Advances, Vol. 6, No. 26, eaax9070, 2020.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review
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T1 - The life history of human foraging
T2 - Cross-cultural and individual variation
AU - Koster, Jeremy
AU - McElreath, Richard
AU - Hill, Kim
AU - Yu, Douglas
AU - Shepard, Glenn
AU - Van Vliet, Nathalie
AU - Gurven, Michael
AU - Trumble, Benjamin
AU - Bird, Rebecca Bliege
AU - Bird, Douglas
AU - Codding, Brian
AU - Coad, Lauren
AU - Pacheco-Cobos, Luis
AU - Winterhalder, Bruce
AU - Lupo, Karen
AU - Schmitt, Dave
AU - Sillitoe, Paul
AU - Franzen, Margaret
AU - Alvard, Michael
AU - Venkataraman, Vivek
AU - Kraft, Thomas
AU - Endicott, Kirk
AU - Beckerman, Stephen
AU - Marks, Stuart A.
AU - Headland, Thomas
AU - Pangau-Adam, Margaretha
AU - Siren, Anders
AU - Kramer, Karen
AU - Greaves, Russell
AU - Reyes-García, Victoria
AU - Guèze, Maximilien
AU - Duda, Romain
AU - Fernández-Llamazares, Álvaro
AU - Gallois, Sandrine
AU - Napitupulu, Lucentezza
AU - Ellen, Roy
AU - Ziker, John
AU - Nielsen, Martin R.
AU - Ready, Elspeth
AU - Healey, Christopher
AU - Ross, Cody
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Human adaptation depends on the integration of slow life history, complex production skills, and extensive sociality. Refining and testing models of the evolution of human life history and cultural learning benefit from increasingly accurate measurement of knowledge, skills, and rates of production with age. We pursue this goal by inferring hunters’ increases and declines of skill from approximately 23,000 hunting records generated by more than 1800 individuals at 40 locations. The data reveal an average age of peak productivity between 30 and 35 years of age, although high skill is maintained throughout much of adulthood. In addition, there is substantial variation both among individuals and sites. Within study sites, variation among individuals depends more on heterogeneity in rates of decline than in rates of increase. This analysis sharpens questions about the coevolution of human life history and cultural adaptation.
AB - Human adaptation depends on the integration of slow life history, complex production skills, and extensive sociality. Refining and testing models of the evolution of human life history and cultural learning benefit from increasingly accurate measurement of knowledge, skills, and rates of production with age. We pursue this goal by inferring hunters’ increases and declines of skill from approximately 23,000 hunting records generated by more than 1800 individuals at 40 locations. The data reveal an average age of peak productivity between 30 and 35 years of age, although high skill is maintained throughout much of adulthood. In addition, there is substantial variation both among individuals and sites. Within study sites, variation among individuals depends more on heterogeneity in rates of decline than in rates of increase. This analysis sharpens questions about the coevolution of human life history and cultural adaptation.
U2 - 10.1126/sciadv.aax9070
DO - 10.1126/sciadv.aax9070
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 32637588
AN - SCOPUS:85087485294
VL - 6
JO - Science advances
JF - Science advances
SN - 2375-2548
IS - 26
M1 - eaax9070
ER -
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