Adaptation and Human Behavior - An Anthropological Perspective - L. Cronk, et al., (de Gruyter, 2000) WW

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Adaptation
and
Human Behavior

EVOLUTIONARY FOUNDATIONS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR
An Aldine de Gruyter Series of Texts and Monographs
EDITED BY
Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, University of California, Davis
Marc Hauser, Harvard University

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Research

An Anthropological Perspective

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ment: Comparative and Cross-CuItural Perspectives

of a Foraging People

across the Life Span: Biosocial Dimensions

ing Economy

Behavior

Perspectives on hernia

Adaptation

Ul7d
Human Behavior

An A nth rop ological Perspective

Editors

Lee Cronk

Napoleon Chagnon

William Irons

ALDINE DE GRUYTER
NEWYORK

ABOUT THE EDITORS

Lee Cronk is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University,
New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Napoleon Chagnon is Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, at the Uni-
versity of California, Santa Barbara, California.
William Irons is Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University,
Evanston, Illinois.

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In mernoriarn

W. D. Hamilton (1936-2000)
Late Royal Society Research Professor in Zoology
Oxford University
without whose new insighfs
into the behavior ofall organisms
this volume and the paradigm it explores
would never have been possible

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CONTENTS

Preface
Acknowledgment
Contributors

Part I Some Statements of Theory

1. Two Decades of a New Paradigm
Willinm Irons and Lee Cronk

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2. Three Styles in the Evolutionary Analysis of Human Behavior
Eric Alden Smith
27

Part I1 Mating

3. Polygyny, Family Structure, and Child Mortality:
A Prospective Study among the Dogon of Mali
Beverly I. Strassmann
49

4.
Paternal Investment and Hunter-Gatherer Divorce Rates
Nicholas G, Blurton l o w s , Frank W, Marlowe, Kristen Hawkes, and
James F. O'Connell
69

5. Fertility, Offspring Quality, and Wealth in Datoga Pastoralists:
Testing Evolutionary Models of Intersexual Selection
Daniel W. Sellen, Monique BargerhofMuIder, and Daniela E Sieg
91

6. Manipulating Kinship Rules:
A Form of Male Yanomamo Reproductive Competition
Napoleon A. Chagnon
215

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Contents
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7. Physical Attractiveness, Race, and Somatic Prejudice
in Bahia, Brazil
Doug Jonts
233

Part I11 Parenting

8. Parental Investment Strategies among Aka Foragers, Ngandu
Farmers, and Euro-American Urban-Indus trialists
Barry S. Hewletf, Michael E. Lamb, Birgit Leyendecker,
and Axe1 Scholmerich
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9. Parenting Other Men’s Children:
Costs, Benefits, and Consequences
lane B. Lmcaster and Hillavd S. Kaplan

10. Female-Biased Parental Investment and Growth Performance
among the Mukogodo
Lee Cronk

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11. Why Do the Yomut Raise More Sons than Daughters?
WiIliam Ivons
223

12. The Grandmother Hypothesis and Human Evolution
Kristen Hawkes, James F. O’Connell, Nicholas Blurton Jones,
Helen Alvarez, and Eric L. Charnov
237

Part IV The Demographic Transition

13. An Adaptive Model of Human Reproductive Rate
Where Wealth Is Inherited:
Why People Have Small Families
Ruth Mace

14. The Evolutionary Economics and Psychology of the
Demographic Transition to Low Fertility
Hillard S. Kaplan and Jane B. Lancaster

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Contents
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Sex, Wealth, and Fertility: Old Rules, New Environments
Bobbi s. Low
323

To Marry Again or Not:
A Dynamic Model fox Demographic Transition
Barney Luttbeg, Monique Borgerhuf Mulder, and Mare Mange1
345

Part V Sociality

Effects of Illness and Injury on Foraging among the
Yora and Shiwiar:
Pathulogy Risk as Adaptive Problem
Lawrence S. Sugiyarna and Richard Chacon
371

Reciprocal Altruism in Yamomamo Food Exchange
Rayrnond H a m s
397

Reciprocal Altruism and Warfare:
A Case from the Ecuadorian Amazon
John (2. Patton

The Emergence and Stability of Cooperative
Fishing on Ifaluk Atoll
R icha r d Sus is

Part VI Conclusion

21. Twenty Years of Evolutionary Biology and
Human Social Behavior:
Where Are We Now?
J. Patrick Gray

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Index