The Life History Of Human Foraging: Cross-Cultural And Individual Variation

Human adaptation depends upon 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 will benefit from increasingly accurate measurement of knowledge, skills, and rates of prod...

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Main Authors: Koster, J., Mcelreath, R., Hill, K., Yu, D., Shepard JR, G., Vliet, N. van, Gurven, M., Kaplan, H., Trumble, B., Bird, R.B., Bird, D., Codding, B., Coad, L.M., Pacheco-Cobos, L., Winterhalder, B., Lupo, K., Schmitt, D., Sillitoe, P., Franzen, M., Alvard, M., Venkataraman, V., Kraft, T., Endicott, K., Beckerman, S., Marks, S.A., Headland, T., Pangau-Adam, M., Siren, A., Kramer, K., Greaves, R., Reyes García, Victoria, Guèze, M., Duda, R., Fernández-Llamazares, A., Gallois, S., Napitupulu, L., Ellen, R., Ziker, J., Nielsen, M.R., Ready, E., Healey, C., Ross, C.
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Language:Inglés
Published: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 2019
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/112136
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author Koster, J.
Mcelreath, R.
Hill, K.
Yu, D.
Shepard JR, G.
Vliet, N. van
Gurven, M.
Kaplan, H.
Trumble, B.
Bird, R.B.
Bird, D.
Codding, B.
Coad, L.M.
Pacheco-Cobos, L.
Winterhalder, B.
Lupo, K.
Schmitt, D.
Sillitoe, P.
Franzen, M.
Alvard, M.
Venkataraman, V.
Kraft, T.
Endicott, K.
Beckerman, S.
Marks, S.A.
Headland, T.
Pangau-Adam, M.
Siren, A.
Kramer, K.
Greaves, R.
Reyes García, Victoria
Guèze, M.
Duda, R.
Fernández-Llamazares, A.
Gallois, S.
Napitupulu, L.
Ellen, R.
Ziker, J.
Nielsen, M.R.
Ready, E.
Healey, C.
Ross, C.
author_browse Alvard, M.
Beckerman, S.
Bird, D.
Bird, R.B.
Coad, L.M.
Codding, B.
Duda, R.
Ellen, R.
Endicott, K.
Fernández-Llamazares, A.
Franzen, M.
Gallois, S.
Greaves, R.
Gurven, M.
Guèze, M.
Headland, T.
Healey, C.
Hill, K.
Kaplan, H.
Koster, J.
Kraft, T.
Kramer, K.
Lupo, K.
Marks, S.A.
Mcelreath, R.
Napitupulu, L.
Nielsen, M.R.
Pacheco-Cobos, L.
Pangau-Adam, M.
Ready, E.
Reyes García, Victoria
Ross, C.
Schmitt, D.
Shepard JR, G.
Sillitoe, P.
Siren, A.
Trumble, B.
Venkataraman, V.
Vliet, N. van
Winterhalder, B.
Yu, D.
Ziker, J.
author_facet Koster, J.
Mcelreath, R.
Hill, K.
Yu, D.
Shepard JR, G.
Vliet, N. van
Gurven, M.
Kaplan, H.
Trumble, B.
Bird, R.B.
Bird, D.
Codding, B.
Coad, L.M.
Pacheco-Cobos, L.
Winterhalder, B.
Lupo, K.
Schmitt, D.
Sillitoe, P.
Franzen, M.
Alvard, M.
Venkataraman, V.
Kraft, T.
Endicott, K.
Beckerman, S.
Marks, S.A.
Headland, T.
Pangau-Adam, M.
Siren, A.
Kramer, K.
Greaves, R.
Reyes García, Victoria
Guèze, M.
Duda, R.
Fernández-Llamazares, A.
Gallois, S.
Napitupulu, L.
Ellen, R.
Ziker, J.
Nielsen, M.R.
Ready, E.
Healey, C.
Ross, C.
author_sort Koster, J.
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description Human adaptation depends upon 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 will benefit from increasingly accurate measurement of knowledge, skills, and rates of production with age. We pursue this goal by inferring individual hunters’ of hunting skill gain and loss from approximately 23,000 hunting records generated by more than 1,800 individuals at 40 locations. The model provides an improved picture of ages of peak productivity as well as variation within and among ages. The data reveal an average age of peak productivity between 30 and 35 years of age, though 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 upon heterogeneity in rates of decline than in rates of increase. This analysis sharpens questions about the co-evolution of human life history and cultural adaptation. It also demonstrates new statistical algorithms and models that expand the potential inferences drawn from detailed quantitative data collected in the field.
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spelling CGSpace1121362025-02-27T08:45:27Z The Life History Of Human Foraging: Cross-Cultural And Individual Variation Koster, J. Mcelreath, R. Hill, K. Yu, D. Shepard JR, G. Vliet, N. van Gurven, M. Kaplan, H. Trumble, B. Bird, R.B. Bird, D. Codding, B. Coad, L.M. Pacheco-Cobos, L. Winterhalder, B. Lupo, K. Schmitt, D. Sillitoe, P. Franzen, M. Alvard, M. Venkataraman, V. Kraft, T. Endicott, K. Beckerman, S. Marks, S.A. Headland, T. Pangau-Adam, M. Siren, A. Kramer, K. Greaves, R. Reyes García, Victoria Guèze, M. Duda, R. Fernández-Llamazares, A. Gallois, S. Napitupulu, L. Ellen, R. Ziker, J. Nielsen, M.R. Ready, E. Healey, C. Ross, C. hunting food security evolution Human adaptation depends upon 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 will benefit from increasingly accurate measurement of knowledge, skills, and rates of production with age. We pursue this goal by inferring individual hunters’ of hunting skill gain and loss from approximately 23,000 hunting records generated by more than 1,800 individuals at 40 locations. The model provides an improved picture of ages of peak productivity as well as variation within and among ages. The data reveal an average age of peak productivity between 30 and 35 years of age, though 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 upon heterogeneity in rates of decline than in rates of increase. This analysis sharpens questions about the co-evolution of human life history and cultural adaptation. It also demonstrates new statistical algorithms and models that expand the potential inferences drawn from detailed quantitative data collected in the field. 2019-03-16 2021-03-08T08:19:13Z 2021-03-08T08:19:13Z Preprint https://hdl.handle.net/10568/112136 en Open Access Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Koster, J., Mcelreath, R., Hill, K., Yu, D., Shepard JR, G., Van Vliet, N., Gurven, M., Kaplan, H., Trumble, B., Bird, R.B., Bird, D., Codding, B., Coad, L., Pacheco-Cobos, L., Winterhalder, B., Lupo, K., Schmitt, D., Sillitoe, P., Franzen, M., Alvard, M., Venkataraman, V., Kraft, T., Endicott, K., Beckerman, S., Marks, S.A., Headland, T., Pangau-Adam, M., Siren, A., Kramer, K., Greaves, R., Reyes-García, V., Guèze, M., Duda, R., Fernández-Llamazares, A., Gallois, S., Napitupulu, L., Ellen, R., Ziker, J., Nielsen, M.R., Ready, E., Healey, C., Ross, C. 2019. The Life History Of Human Foraging: Cross-Cultural And Individual Variation. bioRxiv: 574483. https://doi.org/10.1101/574483
spellingShingle hunting
food security
evolution
Koster, J.
Mcelreath, R.
Hill, K.
Yu, D.
Shepard JR, G.
Vliet, N. van
Gurven, M.
Kaplan, H.
Trumble, B.
Bird, R.B.
Bird, D.
Codding, B.
Coad, L.M.
Pacheco-Cobos, L.
Winterhalder, B.
Lupo, K.
Schmitt, D.
Sillitoe, P.
Franzen, M.
Alvard, M.
Venkataraman, V.
Kraft, T.
Endicott, K.
Beckerman, S.
Marks, S.A.
Headland, T.
Pangau-Adam, M.
Siren, A.
Kramer, K.
Greaves, R.
Reyes García, Victoria
Guèze, M.
Duda, R.
Fernández-Llamazares, A.
Gallois, S.
Napitupulu, L.
Ellen, R.
Ziker, J.
Nielsen, M.R.
Ready, E.
Healey, C.
Ross, C.
The Life History Of Human Foraging: Cross-Cultural And Individual Variation
title The Life History Of Human Foraging: Cross-Cultural And Individual Variation
title_full The Life History Of Human Foraging: Cross-Cultural And Individual Variation
title_fullStr The Life History Of Human Foraging: Cross-Cultural And Individual Variation
title_full_unstemmed The Life History Of Human Foraging: Cross-Cultural And Individual Variation
title_short The Life History Of Human Foraging: Cross-Cultural And Individual Variation
title_sort life history of human foraging cross cultural and individual variation
topic hunting
food security
evolution
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/112136
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