Provisioning offspring and others: Risk-energy trade-offs and gender differences in hunter-gatherer foraging strategies

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1717, 2011, Pages 2502-2509

  Codding, Brian F ^a   Bird, Rebecca Bliege ^a   Bird, Douglas W ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Central place provisioning; Gender division of labour; Human behavioural ecology; Hunter gatherers; Risk; Variance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLOPARENTAL CARE; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIOENERGETICS; ENERGY RESOURCE; FOOD PROCESSING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GENDER ROLE; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; HUNTER-GATHERER; LABOR DIVISION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; TRADE-OFF;

ABORIGINE; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMMUNITY CARE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MALE; PARAGUAY; RISK; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; MALE; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PARAGUAY; QUEENSLAND; RISK; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 79960133926     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2403     Document Type: Article

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