To give and to give not: The behavioral ecology of human food transfers

By Michael Gurven. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2004

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Subfields: Cultural Studies, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Mechanisms of reciprocity in primates: testing for short-term contingency of grooming and food sharing in bonobos and chimpanzees (2013, background): “Since most such tests were statistically significant (Gurven, 2004a; 38 Jaeggi & van Schaik, 2011) there is good evidence for a long-term statistical contingency in 39 many primate species.”
Fair Is Not Fair Everywhere (2015, background): “, Hai||om and Samburu), most exchanges take place between individuals familiar with one another and who repeatedly interact in various domains (Gurven, 2004; Gurven & Winking, 2008).”
The role of food- and object-sharing in the development of social bonds in juvenile jackdaws (Corvus monedula). (2007, background): “Introduction 46 47 Food-sharing, has been the subject of much attention because of its apparent altruistic nature 48 and its possible impact on the evolution of complex cognition in human and non-human 49 primates (de Waal, 1989, 1997a; Stanford & Bunn, 1999; Gurven, 2004; Stevens & Hauser, 50 2004)”
Collective Action in Action: Prosocial Behavior in and out of the Laboratory (2008, methodology): “Study community: Cosincho.”
Mind the Gap: Cooperative Breeding and the Evolution of Our Unique Features (2010, background): “Men may engage in costly signaling to advertise their value as mates or allies (Hawkes 1993), but they generally also provision their families (Gurven 2004), and without prosociality and shared goals, the whole foraging ecology of gathering, hunting, processing (including cooking), and then systemat”
Altruism towards strangers in need: costly signaling in an industrial society (2010, unknown): “Although successful male turtle hunters receive no recompense, not even portions of their catch in the subsequent feast, they gain net benefit form their risky endeavor, which is realized through multiple avenues (Gurven, 2004).”
Altruistic behavior as a costly signal of general intelligence (2007, background): “Bowles, 2001; Lotem, Fishman & Stone, 2000; Roberts, 1998; Gurven, 2004 ).”
Reciprocal altruism, rather than kin selection, maintains nepotistic food transfers on an Ache reservation (2008, unknown): “, 2000b), Mikea (Tucker, 2004), Pilaga (Gurven, 2004), Yanomamo (Hames, 2000), and Ye'kwana (Hames & McCabe, 2007).”
Disadvantage and prosocial behavior: the effects of the Wenchuan earthquake (2011, background): “The origin of cooperative or prosocial behavior is one of the most prominent unsolved problems in current research (Gurven, 2004; Jiménez, Lugo, Cuesta, & Sánchez, 2007; Pennisi, 2005; Van Segbroeck, Santos, Nowe, Pacheco, & Lenaerts, 2008).”
Meat sharing among the Gombe chimpanzees: harassment and reciprocal exchange (2006, background): “In contrast, a recent review of the behavioural ecology of human food sharing ( Gurven 2004 ) argues that human food sharing is best explained by reciprocal altruism, downplaying the importance of tolerated theft.”
Two Key Steps in the Evolution of Human Cooperation (2012, background): “Contemporary hunter-gatherers routinely share the spoils of their collaborative foraging on the scene, without harassment, and large packets of food are almost always brought back to some central location and shared with nonparticipants (Gurven 2004).”
The development of contingent reciprocity in children (2013, result): “Our results show that reciprocity increases markedly with age in this population of children, and by about 5.5 years of age children consistently match the previous behavior of their partners. y, University of California-Los , Los Angeles, CA 90095-1553. lsevier Inc.”
Human Culture in Evolutionary Perspective (2010, background): “In a systematic review, Gurven ( 2004 ) documents how widespread the sharing and trading of food among humans is in small-scale societies.”