@article {330808,
	title = {Hadza Men{\textquoteright}s Follows, 1985-1986: Data and Implications for Ideas About Ancestral Male Foraging Effort in Human Evolution},
	year = {2024},
	abstract = {<p>Paternal provisioning via big game hunting and scavenging is central to most arguments about early human evolution.\&nbsp; Data from East African Hadza challenge those widely held ideas.\&nbsp; Here we report direct observations by the Utah/UCLA research group on Hadza men\&rsquo;s foraging drawn from 570 hours of out-of-camp follows on focal men (FM), Sept 1985-Aug 1986, all in a setting similar in some ways to those in which early humans evolved.\&nbsp; Large ungulates were pursued frequently but few were acquired.\&nbsp; When taken, parts were consumed widely within and between local groups, with no evidence of advantages in consumption for successful hunters\&rsquo; children.\&nbsp; FM targeted smaller, more reliably acquired prey far less often, earning total weights of about 1\% of those from big game.\&nbsp; Nearly all were eaten by FM themselves during follows.\&nbsp; FM and companions also took large quantities of\&nbsp;<em>Apis mellifera</em>honey in some seasons.\&nbsp; More than half was consumed by FM and other party members while away from camp.\&nbsp; Much of the rest was set aside for trade.\&nbsp; Both practices limited its consumption by FMs\&rsquo; children.\&nbsp; Men\&rsquo;s foraging was not consistent with the goal of paternal provisioning in these data\&nbsp;nor in our broader experience with Hadza foragers.\&nbsp; An alternative model of early human evolution based on life history-related changes in mating-age sex ratios, driven by senior females\&rsquo; foraging productivity and its implications for ancestral males\&rsquo; foraging, fits better with both our Hadza observations and the paleoanthropological record.\&nbsp;</p>
},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.48738/2024.iss1.1084},
	url = {https://paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.php/paleo/article/view/1084},
	author = {James O{\textquoteright}Connell and Nicholas Blurton Jones}
}
