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Constraints of knowing or constraints of growing?: Fishing and collecting by the children of mer
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Recent theoretical models suggest that the difference between human and nonhuman primate life-history patterns may be due to a reliance on complex foraging strategies requiring extensive learning. These models predict that children should reach adult levels of efficiency faster when foraging is cognitively simple. We test this prediction with data on Meriam fishing, spearfishing, and shellfishing efficiency. For fishing and spearfishing, which are cognitively difficult, we can find no significant amount of variability in return rates because of experiential factors correlated with age. However, for shellfish collecting, which is relatively easy to learn, there are strong age-related effects on efficiency. Children reach adult efficiency more quickly in fishing as compared to shellfish collecting, probably owing to the size and strength constraints of the latter.
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“for shellfish collecting, which is relatively easy to learn, they found strong age-related effects on efficiency”
From Emerging Adulthood, a Pre-adult Life-History Stage (2020) · cites this paper as [112]
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“The importance of size and strength is confirmed by a study of spearfishing and shellfishing efficiency among the Meriam”
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“For fishing and spearfishing, which are cognitively difficult, Bird and Bird found no significant amount of variability in return rates because experiential factors correlated with age.”
From Emerging Adulthood, a Pre-adult Life-History Stage (2020) · cites this paper as [112]
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Metadata
- Authors
- Bird, R. B., & Bird, D. W.
- Affiliations
- University of Maine (US)
- Corresponding author
- Bird, Rebecca Bliege
- Bird, Douglas W.
- ORCID
- Bird, Rebecca Bliege
- Venue
- Human Nature
- Published
- 2002-06
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 239-267
- ISSN
- 1045-6767 (ISSN-L)
- 1936-4776
- OpenAlex
- W2064819005
- Cited by
- 112
- References
- 42
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- FWCI
- 138.57
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Human Nature (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Language and cultural evolution
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Keywords
- foraging efficiency, age-related learning, human evolution, fishing, spearfishing, return rate, child development
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