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The history of human food transfers: Tinbergen's other question

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2005

Jim Moore
Jim Moore*
Affiliation:
Anthropology Department, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA92093-0532http://weber.ucsd.edu/~jmoore/
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Abstract:

Emphasis on cross-cultural testing, multiple currencies, multivariate analyses, and levels of explanation makes this an important paper. However, it does not distinguish current function from evolutionary origin; it lacks history. Rather than distinct alternatives, tolerated scrounging (TS), costly signaling (CS), and reciprocal altruism (RA) are likely to be sequentially evolved components of a single integrated system (and kin selection (KS) important only among very close relatives).

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , August 2004 , pp. 566 - 567
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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