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N.G. Blurton Jones
Researcher at University of California, Los Angeles
Publications - 13
Citations - 3318
N.G. Blurton Jones is an academic researcher from University of California, Los Angeles. The author has contributed to research in topics: Grandmother hypothesis & Reciprocal altruism. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 13 publications receiving 3151 citations.
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Grandmothering, menopause, and the evolution of human life histories
TL;DR: This hypothesis also accounts for the authors' late maturity, small size at weaning, and high fertility, and has implications for past human habitat choice and social organization and for ideas about the importance of extended learning and paternal provisioning in human evolution.
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Hadza Women's Time Allocation, Offspring Provisioning, and the Evolution of Long Postmenopausal Life Spans
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between women's time allocation and children's nutritional welfare among the Hadza of northern Tanzania and found that these traits may have evolved in tandem.
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Grandmothering and the evolution ofHomo erectus
TL;DR: An alternative scenario is developed, that climate-driven adjustments in female foraging and food sharing practices, possibly involving tubers, favored significant changes in ancestral life history, morphology, and ecology leading to the appearance, spread and persistence of H. erectus.
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Hadza meat sharing.
TL;DR: Previously unpublished data from the Tanzanian Hadza are used to test hypotheses drawn from a simple version of the "sharing as exchange" argument, and an alternative based partly on the observation that a successful hunter does not control the distribution of his kill is elaborate.
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Reanalysis of large mammal body part transport among the Hadza
TL;DR: In this article, the authors re-analysed 54 cases of large mammal body part transport among the Hadza and found that high ranked parts are more likely to be moved from kill sites to base camps, low ranked parts less likely.