HADZA WOMENS TIME ALLOCATION, OFFSPRING PROVISIONING, AND THE EVOLUTION OF LONG POSTMENOPAUSAL LIFE SPANS

Authors
HAWKES K OCONNELL JF JONES NGB
Citation
K. Hawkes et al., HADZA WOMENS TIME ALLOCATION, OFFSPRING PROVISIONING, AND THE EVOLUTION OF LONG POSTMENOPAUSAL LIFE SPANS, Current anthropology, 38(4), 1997, pp. 551-577
Citations number
118
Categorie Soggetti
Anthropology
Journal title
Current anthropology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00113204
Volume
38
Issue
4
Year of publication
1997
Pages
551 - 577
Database
ISI
SICI code
0011-3204(1997)38:4<551:HWTAOP>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
Extended provisioning of offspring and long postmenopausal life spans are characteristic of all modem humans but no other primates. These tr aits may have evolved in tandem. Analysis of relationships between wom en's time allocation and children's nutritional welfare among the Hadz a of northern Tanzania yields results consistent with this proposition . Implications for current thought about the evolution of hominid food sharing, life history, and social organization are discussed.