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A kind man benefits himself – but how? Evolutionary models of human food sharing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2005

Thomas Getty
Thomas Getty*
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology and Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI49060-9516http://www.msu.edu/~getty/
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getty@kbs.msu.edu
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Abstract:

Can evolutionary models explain food sharing in traditional human societies? Gurven's analysis cannot rule out any of the models (kin selection, reciprocal altruism, tolerated scrounging, costly signaling, or by-product mutualism), and quantitative partitioning of relative importance is not feasible. For now, the hypotheses seem like the proverbial blind men examining the elephant: each was partly in the right, and all were in the wrong!

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , August 2004 , pp. 563 - 564
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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