Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "meat eating"
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No Evidence of Short-Term Exchange of Meat for Sex among Chimpanzees
(Elsevier, 2010)The meat-for-sex hypothesis posits that male chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) trade meat with estrous females in exchange for short-term mating access. This notion is widely cited in the anthropological literature and has ... -
Predation by Female Chimpanzees: Toward an Understanding of Sex Differences in Meat Acquisition in the Last Common Ancestor of Pan and Homo
(Elsevier BV, 2017-09)Among modern foraging societies, men hunt more than women, who mostly target relatively low-quality, reliable resources (i.e., plants). This difference has long been assumed to reflect human female reproductive constraints, ...