Why do good hunters have higher reproductive success?
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Why do good hunters have higher reproductive success?
Anecdotal evidence from many hunter-gatherer societies suggests that successful hunters experience higher prestige and greater reproductive success. Detailed quantitative data on these patterns are now available for five widely dispersed cases (Ache, Hadza, !Kung, Lamalera, and Meriam) and indicate that better hunters exhibit higher age-corrected reproductive success than other men in their soc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Human Nature
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1045-6767,1936-4776
DOI: 10.1007/s12110-004-1013-9