Socioecology shapes child and adolescent time allocation in twelve hunter-gatherer and mixed-subsistence forager societies

被引:17
作者
Lew-Levy, Sheina [1 ,2 ]
Reckin, Rachel [3 ]
Kissler, Stephen M. [4 ]
Pretelli, Ilaria [1 ]
Boyette, Adam H. [1 ]
Crittenden, Alyssa N. [5 ]
Hagen, Renee, V [6 ]
Haas, Randall [7 ]
Kramer, Karen L. [8 ]
Koster, Jeremy [9 ]
O'Brien, Matthew J. [10 ]
Sonoda, Koji [11 ]
Surovell, Todd A. [12 ]
Stieglitz, Jonathan [13 ]
Tucker, Bram [14 ]
Lavi, Noa [15 ,16 ]
Ellis-Davies, Kate [17 ]
Davis, Helen E. [18 ]
机构
[1] Max Planck Inst Evolutionary Anthropol, Dept Human Behav Ecol & Culture, Deutsch Pl 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
[2] Max Planck Inst Evolutionary Anthropol, Dept Comparat Cultural Psychol, Deutsch Pl 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
[3] Univ Cambridge, Dept Archaeol, Downing St, Cambridge CV2 3DZ, England
[4] Harvard TH Chan Sch Publ Hlth, Dept Immunol & Infect Dis, 665 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115 USA
[5] Univ Nevada, Dept Anthropol, 4505 S Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV 89154 USA
[6] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Anthropol, 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA
[7] Wayne State Univ, Dept Anthropol, 656 W Kirby St,3037 FAB, Detroit, MI 48202 USA
[8] Univ Utah, Dept Anthropol, 260 Cent Campus Dr,Suite 4553, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA
[9] Univ Cincinnati, Dept Anthropol, 481 Braunstein Hall,POB 210380, Cincinnati, OH 45221 USA
[10] Calif State Univ Chico, Dept Anthropol, 400 W First St, Chico, CA 95929 USA
[11] Niigata Univ, Fac Humanities & Social Sci, Nishi Ku, 8050 Ikarashi 2 No Cho, Niigata 9502181, Japan
[12] Univ Wyoming, Dept Anthropol, 12th & Lewis St, Laramie, WY 82071 USA
[13] Univ Toulouse 1 Capitole, Inst Adv Study Toulouse, 1 Esplanade Univ, F-31080 Toulouse 06, France
[14] Univ Georgia, Dept Anthropol, 250 Baldwin Hall, Athens, GA 30602 USA
[15] Univ Haifa, Dept Anthropol, Abba Khoushy Ave 199, IL-3498838 Haifa, Israel
[16] UCL, Dept Anthropol, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW, England
[17] Swansea Univ, Dept Psychol, Singleton Pk, Swansea SA2 8PP, W Glam, Wales
[18] Harvard, Dept Human Evolutionary Biol, 11 Divin Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
关键词
OKAVANGO DELTA PEOPLES; SEXUAL DIVISION; LIFE-HISTORY; CULTURAL-CONTEXT; EVOLUTION; HADZA; LABOR; PLAY; CARE; INTELLIGENCE;
D O I
10.1038/s41598-022-12217-1
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
A key issue distinguishing prominent evolutionary models of human life history is whether prolonged childhood evolved to facilitate learning in a skill- and strength-intensive foraging niche requiring high levels of cooperation. Considering the diversity of environments humans inhabit, children's activities should also reflect local social and ecological opportunities and constraints. To better understand our species' developmental plasticity, the present paper compiled a time allocation dataset for children and adolescents from twelve hunter-gatherer and mixed-subsistence forager societies (n = 690; 3-18 years; 52% girls). We investigated how environmental factors, local ecological risk, and men and women's relative energetic contributions were associated with cross-cultural variation in child and adolescent time allocation to childcare, food production, domestic work, and play. Annual precipitation, annual mean temperature, and net primary productivity were not strongly associated with child and adolescent activity budgets. Increased risk of encounters with dangerous animals and dehydration negatively predicted time allocation to childcare and domestic work, but not food production. Gender differences in child and adolescent activity budgets were stronger in societies where men made greater direct contributions to food production than women. We interpret these findings as suggesting that children and their caregivers adjust their activities to facilitate the early acquisition of knowledge which helps children safely cooperate with adults in a range of social and ecological environments. These findings compel us to consider how childhood may have also evolved to facilitate flexible participation in productive activities in early life.
引用
收藏
页数:16
相关论文
共 135 条
[41]   Broadening Perspectives on the Evolution of Human Paternal Care and Fathers' Effects on Children [J].
Gettler, Lee T. ;
Boyette, Adam H. ;
Rosenbaum, Stacy .
ANNUAL REVIEW OF ANTHROPOLOGY, VOL 49, 2020, 2020, 49 :141-160
[42]   Becoming DADS Considering the Role of Cultural Context and Developmental Plasticity for Paternal Socioendocrinology [J].
Gettler, Lee T. .
CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY, 2016, 57 :S38-S51
[43]   A Direct Comparison of Scan and Focal Sampling Methods for Measuring Wild Chimpanzee Feeding Behaviour [J].
Gilby, Ian C. ;
Pokempner, Amy A. ;
Wrangham, Richard W. .
FOLIA PRIMATOLOGICA, 2010, 81 (05) :254-264
[44]   Determinants of time allocation across the lifespan - A theoretical model and an application to the Machiguenga and Piro of Peru [J].
Gurven, Michael ;
Kaplan, Hillard .
HUMAN NATURE-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY BIOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVE, 2006, 17 (01) :1-49
[45]   Why Do Men Hunt? A Reevaluation of "Man the Hunter" and the Sexual Division of Labor [J].
Gurven, Michael ;
Hill, Kim .
CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY, 2009, 50 (01) :51-74
[46]  
Hagen R., 2016, Hunter Gatherer Research, V2, P389, DOI [DOI 10.3828/HGR.2016.27, 10.3828/hgr.2016, DOI 10.3828/HGR.2016]
[47]   THE CULTURAL-CONTEXT OF GENDER SEGREGATION IN CHILDRENS PEER GROUPS [J].
HARKNESS, S ;
SUPER, CM .
CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1985, 56 (01) :219-224
[48]   Version 4 of the CRU TS monthly high-resolution gridded multivariate climate dataset [J].
Harris, Ian ;
Osborn, Timothy J. ;
Jones, Phil ;
Lister, David .
SCIENTIFIC DATA, 2020, 7 (01)
[49]   HADZA CHILDRENS FORAGING - JUVENILE DEPENDENCY, SOCIAL ARRANGEMENTS, AND MOBILITY AMONG HUNTER-GATHERERS [J].
HAWKES, K ;
OCONNELL, JF ;
JONES, NGB .
CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY, 1995, 36 (04) :688-700
[50]   Grandmothers and the evolution of human longevity [J].
Hawkes, K .
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN BIOLOGY, 2003, 15 (03) :380-400