Sex Difference in Travel is Concentrated in Adolescence and Tracks Reproductive Interests
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-7-2014
Abstract
The Tsimane Health and Life History Project, an integrated bio‐behavioral study of the human life course, is designed to test competing hypotheses of human life‐history evolution. One aim is to understand the bidirectional connections between life history and social behavior in a high‐fertility, kin‐based context lacking amenities of modern urban life (e.g. sanitation, banks, electricity). Another aim is to understand how a high pathogen burden influences health and well‐being during development and adulthood. A third aim addresses how modernization shapes human life histories and sociality. Here we outline the project's goals, history, and main findings since its inception in 2002. We reflect on the implications of current findings and highlight the need for more coordinated ethnographic and biomedical study of contemporary nonindustrial populations to address broad questions that can situate evolutionary anthropology in a key position within the social and life sciences.
Recommended Citation
Miner, E. J., Gurven, M., Kaplan, H., & Gaulin, S. J. (2014). Sex difference in travel is concentrated in adolescence and tracks reproductive interests. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281(1796), 20141476. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.1476
Peer Reviewed
1
Copyright
The Royal Society
Comments
This article was originally published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, volume 281, issue 1796, in 2014. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.1476