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Gendered movement ecology and landscape use in Hadza hunter-gatherers

Wood, Brian M., Harris, Jacob A., Raichlen, David A., Pontzer, Herman, Sayre, Katherine, Sancilio, Amelia, Berbesque, Colette, Crittenden, Alyssa N., Mabulla, Audax, McElreath, Richard, Cashdan, Elizabeth, Jones, James Holland·2021·Nature Human Behaviour
DOI 10.1038/s41562-020-01002-7PMC PMC8060163
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Understanding how gendered economic roles structure space use is critical to evolutionary models of foraging behaviour, social organization and cognition. Here, we examine hunter-gatherer spatial behaviour on a very large scale, using GPS devices worn by Hadza foragers to record 2,078 person-days of movement. Theory in movement ecology suggests that the density and mobility of targeted foods should predict spatial behaviour and that strong gender differences should arise in a hunter-gatherer context. As predicted, we find that men walked further per day, explored more land, followed more sinuous paths and were more likely to be alone. These data are consistent with the ecology of male- and female-targeted foods and suggest that male landscape use is more navigationally challenging in this hunter-gatherer context. Comparisons of Hadza space use with space use data available for non-human primates suggest that the sexual division of labour likely co-evolved with increased sex differences in spatial behaviour and landscape use.

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  • Hunting and gathering has been the sole mode of subsistence for most of our species' existence, and recent hunter-gatherer populations have been found to walk 6-19 km per day.

    “Hunting and gathering has been the sole mode of subsistence for most of our species’ existence, and recent hunter–gatherer populations have been found to walk 6–19 km per day (Leonard & Robertson, 1997a; Wood et al., 2021), much of which is likely to be on irregular surfaces.”

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Wood, B. M., Harris, J. A., Raichlen, D. A., Pontzer, H., Sayre, K., Sancilio, A., Berbesque, C., Crittenden, A. N., Mabulla, A., McElreath, R., Cashdan, E., & Jones, J. H.
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Nature Human Behaviour
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2021-01-04
Volume
5
Issue
4
Pages
436-446
ISSN
2397-3374
DOI
10.1038/s41562-020-01002-7
PMC
PMC8060163
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57
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en
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  • Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie
  • National Geographic Society
  • Arizona State University; The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
  • National Science Foundation (1440867, 0850815, 1440841, 1062879)
  • Yale University
  • The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
  • The National Science Foundation

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