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The Life History Of Human Foraging: Cross-Cultural And Individual Variation

View ORCID ProfileJeremy Koster, Richard Mcelreath, Kim Hill, Douglas Yu, Glenn Shepard JR., Nathalie Van Vliet, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan, Benjamin Trumble, Rebecca Bliege Bird, Douglas Bird, Brian Codding, Lauren Coad, Luis Pacheco-Cobos, Bruce Winterhalder, Karen Lupo, Dave Schmitt, Paul Sillitoe, Margaret Franzen, Michael Alvard, Vivek Venkataraman, Thomas Kraft, Kirk Endicott, Stephen Beckerman, Stuart A. Marks, Thomas Headland, Margaretha Pangau-Adam, Anders Siren, Karen Kramer, Russell Greaves, Victoria Reyes-García, Maximilien Guèze, Romain Duda, Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, Sandrine Gallois, Lucentezza Napitupulu, Roy Ellen, John Ziker, Martin R. Nielsen, Elspeth Ready, Christopher Healey, Cody Ross
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/574483
Jeremy Koster
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI, CINCINNATI OH 45221-0380MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY
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Richard Mcelreath
MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGYDEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY & GRADUATE GROUP IN ECOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS
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Kim Hill
SCHOOL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION AND SOCIAL CHANGE, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
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Douglas Yu
STATE KEY LABORATORY OF GENETIC RESOURCES AND EVOLUTION, KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGYSCHOOL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA
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Glenn Shepard
MUSEU PARAENSE EMÍLIO GOELDI
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Nathalie Van Vliet
CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH
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Michael Gurven
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA
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Hillard Kaplan
ECONOMIC SCIENCE INSTITUTE, CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY
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Benjamin Trumble
SCHOOL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION AND SOCIAL CHANGE, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYCENTER FOR EVOLUTION AND MEDICINE, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
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Rebecca Bliege Bird
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
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Douglas Bird
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
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Brian Codding
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
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Lauren Coad
CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCHSCHOOL OF LIFE SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX
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Luis Pacheco-Cobos
FACULTAD DE BIOLOGIA, XALAPA UNIVERSIDAD VERACRUZANA
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Bruce Winterhalder
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY & GRADUATE GROUP IN ECOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS
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Karen Lupo
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY
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Dave Schmitt
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY
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Paul Sillitoe
ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT, DURHAM UNIVERSITY
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Margaret Franzen
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Michael Alvard
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
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Vivek Venkataraman
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY IN TOULOUSE
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Thomas Kraft
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA
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Kirk Endicott
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, DARTMOUTH COLLEGE
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Stephen Beckerman
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
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Stuart A. Marks
DEPARTMENTS OF BIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND
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Thomas Headland
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, SIL INTERNATIONAL
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Margaretha Pangau-Adam
DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN, GERMANY AND BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT-FMIPA, CENDERAWASIH UNIVERSITY, PAPUA INDONESIA
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DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY, UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI
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Karen Kramer
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
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Russell Greaves
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
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Victoria Reyes-García
INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS (ICREA), BARCELONA AND INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS (ICTA), UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA
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INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS, UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA
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Romain Duda
ECO-ANTHROPOLOGY & ETHNOBIOLOGY LABORATORY, UMR 7206 (CNRS-MNHN). MUSÉE DE L’HOMME - MUSÉUM NATIONAL D’HISTOIRE NATURELLE, PARIS
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METAPOPULATION RESEARCH CENTRE (MRC), DEPARTMENT OF BIOSCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI
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Sandrine Gallois
FACULTY OF ARCHAEOLOGY, LEIDEN UNIVERSITY, NETHERLANDS
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Lucentezza Napitupulu
INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS, UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA
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Roy Ellen
SCHOOL OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND CONSERVATION, UNIVERSITY OF KENT
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John Ziker
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY
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Martin R. Nielsen
DEPARTMENT OF FOOD AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS, UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN
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Elspeth Ready
MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY
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Christopher Healey
SCHOOL OF CULTURE, HISTORY AND LANGUAGE, AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY.
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Cody Ross
MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY
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ABSTRACT

Human adaptation depends upon the integration of slow life history, complex production skills, and extensive sociality. Refining and testing models of the evolution of human life history and cultural learning will benefit from increasingly accurate measurement of knowledge, skills, and rates of production with age. We pursue this goal by inferring individual hunters’ of hunting skill gain and loss from approximately 23,000 hunting records generated by more than 1,800 individuals at 40 locations. The model provides an improved picture of ages of peak productivity as well as variation within and among ages. The data reveal an average age of peak productivity between 30 and 35 years of age, though high skill is maintained throughout much of adulthood. In addition, there is substantial variation both among individuals and sites. Within study sites, variation among individuals depends more upon heterogeneity in rates of decline than in rates of increase. This analysis sharpens questions about the co-evolution of human life history and cultural adaptation. It also demonstrates new statistical algorithms and models that expand the potential inferences drawn from detailed quantitative data collected in the field.

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  • E-mail address: jeremy.koster{at}uc.edu

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The Life History Of Human Foraging: Cross-Cultural And Individual Variation
Jeremy Koster, Richard Mcelreath, Kim Hill, Douglas Yu, Glenn Shepard JR., Nathalie Van Vliet, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan, Benjamin Trumble, Rebecca Bliege Bird, Douglas Bird, Brian Codding, Lauren Coad, Luis Pacheco-Cobos, Bruce Winterhalder, Karen Lupo, Dave Schmitt, Paul Sillitoe, Margaret Franzen, Michael Alvard, Vivek Venkataraman, Thomas Kraft, Kirk Endicott, Stephen Beckerman, Stuart A. Marks, Thomas Headland, Margaretha Pangau-Adam, Anders Siren, Karen Kramer, Russell Greaves, Victoria Reyes-García, Maximilien Guèze, Romain Duda, Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, Sandrine Gallois, Lucentezza Napitupulu, Roy Ellen, John Ziker, Martin R. Nielsen, Elspeth Ready, Christopher Healey, Cody Ross
bioRxiv 574483; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/574483
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The Life History Of Human Foraging: Cross-Cultural And Individual Variation
Jeremy Koster, Richard Mcelreath, Kim Hill, Douglas Yu, Glenn Shepard JR., Nathalie Van Vliet, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan, Benjamin Trumble, Rebecca Bliege Bird, Douglas Bird, Brian Codding, Lauren Coad, Luis Pacheco-Cobos, Bruce Winterhalder, Karen Lupo, Dave Schmitt, Paul Sillitoe, Margaret Franzen, Michael Alvard, Vivek Venkataraman, Thomas Kraft, Kirk Endicott, Stephen Beckerman, Stuart A. Marks, Thomas Headland, Margaretha Pangau-Adam, Anders Siren, Karen Kramer, Russell Greaves, Victoria Reyes-García, Maximilien Guèze, Romain Duda, Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, Sandrine Gallois, Lucentezza Napitupulu, Roy Ellen, John Ziker, Martin R. Nielsen, Elspeth Ready, Christopher Healey, Cody Ross
bioRxiv 574483; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/574483

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