Dr Duncan Stibbard-Hawkes' Outputs (16)

Female foragers sometimes hunt, yet gendered divisions of labor are real: a comment on Anderson et al. (2023) The Myth of Man the Hunter (2024)
Journal Article
Venkataraman, V. V., Hoffman, J., Farquharson, K., Davis, H. E., Hagen, E. H., Hames, R. B., Hewlett, B. S., Glowacki, L., Jang, H., Kelly, R., Kramer, K., Lew-Levy, S., Starkweather, K., Syme, K., & Stibbard-Hawkes, D. N. (2024). Female foragers sometimes hunt, yet gendered divisions of labor are real: a comment on Anderson et al. (2023) The Myth of Man the Hunter. Evolution and Human Behavior, 45(4), 106586. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.04.014

Gendered divisions of labor are a feature of every known contemporary hunter-gatherer (forager) society. While gender roles are certainly flexible, and prominent and well-studied cases of female hunting do exist, it is more often men who hunt. A new... Read More about Female foragers sometimes hunt, yet gendered divisions of labor are real: a comment on Anderson et al. (2023) The Myth of Man the Hunter.

Foreign-language effects in cross-cultural behavioral research: Evidence from the Tanzanian Hadza (2024)
Journal Article
Stibbard-Hawkes, D. N. E., Abarbanell, L., Mabulla, I. A., Endeko, E. S., Legare, C. H., & Apicella, C. L. (2024). Foreign-language effects in cross-cultural behavioral research: Evidence from the Tanzanian Hadza. PNAS Nexus, 3(6), Article pgae218. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae218

Behavioral research in traditional subsistence populations is often conducted in a non-native language. Recent studies show that non-native language-use systematically influences behavior, including in widely used methodologies. However, such studies... Read More about Foreign-language effects in cross-cultural behavioral research: Evidence from the Tanzanian Hadza.

Reconsidering the link between past material culture and cognition in light of contemporary hunter-gatherer material use. (2024)
Journal Article
Stibbard-Hawkes, D. N. E. (2024). Reconsidering the link between past material culture and cognition in light of contemporary hunter-gatherer material use. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1-53. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x24000062

Many have interpreted symbolic material culture in the deep past as evidencing the origins sophisticated, modern cognition. Scholars from across the behavioural and cognitive sciences, including linguists, psychologists, philosophers, neuroscientists... Read More about Reconsidering the link between past material culture and cognition in light of contemporary hunter-gatherer material use..

Do religious and market-based institutions promote cooperation in Hadza hunter-gatherers? (2023)
Book Chapter
Stagnaro, M. N., Stibbard-Hawkes, D. N. E., & Apicella, C. L. (2023). Do religious and market-based institutions promote cooperation in Hadza hunter-gatherers?. In M. Lang, B. Grant Purzycki, J. Henrich, & A. Norenzayan (Eds.), The Evolution of Religion and Morality (171-189). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032624099-11

A cost for signaling: do Hadza hunter-gatherers forgo calories to show-off in an experimental context? (2023)
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Stibbard-Hawkes, D. N., Amir, D., & Apicella, C. L. (2023). A cost for signaling: do Hadza hunter-gatherers forgo calories to show-off in an experimental context?. Evolution and Human Behavior, 44(5), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2022.10.004

Hadza food-sharing is extremely generous and often extends to individuals outside the household. Some anthropologists have proposed that individuals, especially men, share food beyond the household in order to signal foraging skill. While correlation... Read More about A cost for signaling: do Hadza hunter-gatherers forgo calories to show-off in an experimental context?.

Did we all go together when we went? Considering the adaptive importance of risky joint action. (2023)
Journal Article
Stibbard-Hawkes, D. N. E. (online). Did we all go together when we went? Considering the adaptive importance of risky joint action. Religion, Brain & Behavior, https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2023.2197983

Myopia rates among Hadza hunter‐gatherers are low but not exceptional (2022)
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Stibbard‐Hawkes, D. N., & Apicella, C. L. (2022). Myopia rates among Hadza hunter‐gatherers are low but not exceptional. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 179(4), 655-667. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24611

Myopia rates are increasing globally. This epidemic is linked to increased school participation, decreased outdoor activity and the proliferation of near-work occupations. The Tanzanian Hadza have traditionally subsisted as hunter-gatherers. School p... Read More about Myopia rates among Hadza hunter‐gatherers are low but not exceptional.

Why hunt? Why gather? Why share? Hadza assessments of foraging and food-sharing motive (2022)
Journal Article
Stibbard-Hawkes, D. N., Smith, K., & Apicella, C. L. (2022). Why hunt? Why gather? Why share? Hadza assessments of foraging and food-sharing motive. Evolution and Human Behavior, 43(3), 257-272. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2022.03.001

Over the last half century, anthropologists have vigorously debated the adaptive motivations underlying food acquisition choices and food-sharing among hunter-gatherer groups. Numerous explanations have been proposed to account for high-levels of gen... Read More about Why hunt? Why gather? Why share? Hadza assessments of foraging and food-sharing motive.

Do religious and market-based institutions promote cooperation in Hadza hunter-gatherers? (2022)
Journal Article
Stagnaro, M. N., Stibbard-Hawkes, D. N., & Apicella, C. L. (2022). Do religious and market-based institutions promote cooperation in Hadza hunter-gatherers?. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 12(1-2), 171-189. https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599x.2021.2006293

Humans’ willingness to bear costs to benefit others is an evolutionary puzzle. Cultural group selection proposes a possible answer to this puzzle—cooperative norms and institutions proliferate due to group-level benefits. For instance, belief in know... Read More about Do religious and market-based institutions promote cooperation in Hadza hunter-gatherers?.

Some omissions, few confusions. A reply to Pinheiro 2021 (2021)
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Stibbard‐Hawkes, D. N., & Attenborough, R. D. (2021). Some omissions, few confusions. A reply to Pinheiro 2021. American journal of physical anthropology, 174(3), 392-395. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24223

To the hunter go the spoils? No evidence of nutritional benefit to being or marrying a well‐reputed Hadza hunter (2020)
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Stibbard‐Hawkes, D. N., Attenborough, R. D., Mabulla, I. A., & Marlowe, F. W. (2020). To the hunter go the spoils? No evidence of nutritional benefit to being or marrying a well‐reputed Hadza hunter. American journal of physical anthropology, 173(1), https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24027

No Association between 2D:4D Ratio and Hunting Success among Hadza Hunters (2020)
Journal Article
Stibbard-Hawkes, D. N. (2020). No Association between 2D:4D Ratio and Hunting Success among Hadza Hunters. Human Nature, 31(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-019-09359-z

Egalitarianism and democratized access to lethal weaponry: a neglected approach (2020)
Book Chapter
Stibbard-Hawkes, D. N. (2020). Egalitarianism and democratized access to lethal weaponry: a neglected approach. In L. Moreau (Ed.), Social inequality before farming? Multidisciplinary approaches to the study of social organization in prehistoric and ethnograpic hunter-gatherer-fisher societies (83-102). McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. https://doi.org/10.17863/cam.60646

In Memoriam: Frank W. Marlowe (April 17, 1954–September 25, 2019) (2019)
Journal Article
Gray, P. B., Crittenden, A. N., Apicella, C. L., Berbesque, C., Stibbard-Hawkes, D. N. E., & Wood, B. (2020). In Memoriam: Frank W. Marlowe (April 17, 1954–September 25, 2019). Human Nature, 31(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-019-09357-1

Costly signaling and the handicap principle in hunter-gatherer research: A critical review (2019)
Journal Article
Stibbard-Hawkes, D. N. (2019). Costly signaling and the handicap principle in hunter-gatherer research: A critical review. Evolutionary Anthropology, 28(3), 144-157. https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21767

A Noisy Signal: To what extent are Hadza hunting reputations predictive of actual hunting skills? (2018)
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Stibbard-Hawkes, D. N. E., Attenborough, R. D., & Marlowe, F. W. (2018). A Noisy Signal: To what extent are Hadza hunting reputations predictive of actual hunting skills?. Evolution and Human Behavior, 39(6), 639-651. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.06.005

The measurement of hunting ability has been central to several debates about the goals of men’s hunting among the Hadza and other hunter-gatherer populations. Hunting ability has previously been measured indirectly, by weighing the amount of food ind... Read More about A Noisy Signal: To what extent are Hadza hunting reputations predictive of actual hunting skills?.