Variability in the organization and size of hunter-gatherer groups: Foragers do not live in small-scale societies

2019/04/11 by Douglas W. Bird, Rebecca Bliege Bird, Brian F. Codding +2 · 1 voice · 2 citations
Environmental Science · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation #Primate Behavior and Ecology #Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

paper · doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.03.005

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Citations

• Fission‐Fusion Dynamics
• Systematic Butchery by Plio/Pleistocene Hominids at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania [and Comments and Reply]
• Willow Smoke and Dogs’ Tails: Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Systems and Archaeological Site Formation
• The Food-sharing Behavior of Protohuman Hominids
• Discrete hierarchical organization of social group sizes
• Long-distance stone transport and pigment use in the earliest Middle Stone Age

Cited by

• Hunting and gathering
• Coordinating cooperation in stag-hunt game: Emergence of evolutionarily stable procedural rationality

Discussions

• Yeah, that's right (I just remember talking to Brian and Kim about it). There's also this. doi.org/10.1016/j.jh... [bsky, 2 points, 0 comments]