Spatial adaptations for plant foraging: Women excel and calories count

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1626, 2007, Pages 2679-2684

  New, Joshua ^a   Krasnow, Max M ^b   Truxaw, Danielle ^b   Gaulin, Steven J C ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Foraging adaptations; Navigation; Optimal foraging theory; Sex differences; Spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; EVOLUTION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; MEMORY; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SPATIAL COGNITION; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALORIC DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; FOOD; FORAGING; FRUIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKILL; SPATIAL MEMORY; VEGETABLE;

EID: 35048872133     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0826     Document Type: Article

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