Skills, division of labour and economies of scale among Amazonian hunters and South Indian honey collectors

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1683, 2015, Pages

  Hooper, Paul L ^a   Demps, Kathryn ^b   Gurven, Michael ^c   Gerkey, Drew ^d   Kaplan, Hillard S ^e  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic specialization; Hunting and gathering; Intergenerational division of labour; Optimal group size; Returns to scale; Sexual division of labour

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; GROUP SIZE; HONEY; HUNTER-GATHERER; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSFER; LABOR DIVISION; OPTIMIZATION; RETURNS TO SCALE; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SKILLED LABOR; SPECIALIZATION;

AMAZONIA; BOLIVIA; INDIA;

AGING; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COOPERATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUTH AMERICA; THEORETICAL MODEL; WORK;

AGING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMMERCE; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEX FACTORS; SOUTH AMERICA; WORK;

EID: 84945252129     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0008     Document Type: Article

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