What is it about?
This article examines material, embodied, and relational wealth variables as they affect male reproductive success in an indigenous community of hunter-fisher-trappers in northern Siberia. The wives of men with more material wealth relating to hunting and higher ratings for hunting skill have shorter interbirth intervals.
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This article is demonstrates the importance of wealth factors relating to food production in a hunting society as they influence fertility patterns.
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Men are investing in their wives' and children's well-being. The more they are capable of investing the more children they have. This result provides empirical evidence consistent with the embodied capital theory of human evolution (Kaplan, Hill, Hurtado, and Lancaster).
Professor John P Ziker
Boise State University
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This page is a summary of: The Effects of Wealth on Male Reproduction among Monogamous Hunter-Fisher-Trappers in Northern Siberia, Current Anthropology, April 2016, University of Chicago Press,
DOI: 10.1086/685730.
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