The benefits of costly signaling: Meriam turtle hunters

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Behavioral Ecology and Archaeology (2006, background): “…behavior over the past decade (e.g., Bliege Bird and Smith, 2005; Bliege Bird et al., 2001; Boone, 1998, 2000; Boone and Kressler, 1999; Hawkes, 2000; Hawkes and Bliege Bird, 2002; Neiman, 1997; Smith and Bliege Bird, 2000, 2005; Smith et al., 2003; Sosis, 2000, 2003; Sosis and Bressler, 2003).”
To give and to give not: The behavioral ecology of human food transfers (2004, background): “Successful Meriam hunters have higher age-specific reproductive success, higher quality mates, and more sexual partners than poor hunters (Smith et al. 2003).”
Strategies for cooperation in biological markets, especially for humans (2013, background): “These hunters seem to benefit from this signaling: Meriam turtle hunters in the Torres Strait have more children than non-hunters (Smith, 2004; Smith et al., 2003), and good Ache hunters have more children with other men's wives than do poor hunters (Hill & Kaplan, 1988).”
Human sexual selection (2016, background): “In addition, some evidence indicates that men’s mating and reproductive success are more strongly linked to dominance and status among men than attractiveness to women [33 ,43].”
Prosocial signaling and cooperation among Martu hunters (2015, background): “As Smith et al. (2003) point out, Meriam turtle hunting carries two kinds of informative signals, sent by the ability of the hunter to pay different types of costs.”