User:Katherinegaffney/sandbox/My sandbox: Provisioning Hypothesis

Provisioning Hypothesis Parental Investment The Hunting hypothesis explains the high human male parental investment in offspring as compared to primates since meat is an economical and condensed food resource in that it can be brought home to feed the young, however it is not efficient to carry low-calorie food across great distances. (82)		Male Coalitions The Hunting hypothesis also explains the advent of strong male coalitions. Although chimpanzees form male-male coalitions, they tend to be temporary opportunistic. Contrastingly large game hunters require consistent and coordinated cooperation to succeed in large game hunting (82) An alternate explanations of emergence of the strong male coalitions are group-ongroup aggression and defense along with in-goup political alliances. (82)

Reciprocal Altruism The meat form successful large game hunts are in excess of what a single hunter can consume. Complementary to that, hunting success varies by week. One week a hunter may succeed in hunting large game and the next may return with no meat. Thus there are low costs to giving away meat that cannot be eaten by the individual hunter on his own and large benefits for the expectation of the returned favor in a week where his hunting is not successful. (82)

Sexual Division of Labor It is argued that men and women are designed to hunt and gather respectively. Men’s upper body strength, size, and accurate throwing skill Add bit about sight

Provisioning- form of sexual competition among males for females **** (Norton)