ArticleRoyal Society open science2015
Polygyny without wealth: popularity in gift games predicts polygyny in BaYaka Pygmies.
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- Social ties in the Congo Basin: insights into tropical forest adaptation from BaYaka and their neighbours.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Review
- The Relative Importance of "Cooperative Context" and Kinship in Structuring Cooperative Behavior : A Comparative Study of Saami Reindeer Herders.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2021Article
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- Development of social learning and play in BaYaka hunter-gatherers of Congo.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Evolutionary Models of Leadership : Tests and Synthesis.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2019Article
- Evolved but Not Fixed: A Life History Account of Gender Roles and Gender Inequality.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Review
- Sex differences in political leadership in an egalitarian society.Evolution and human behavior : official journal of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society · 2018Article
- Greater wealth inequality, less polygyny: rethinking the polygyny threshold model.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2018Article
- Kinship underlies costly cooperation in Mosuo villages.Royal Society open science · 2018Article
- The narrow gap between norms and cooperative behaviour in a reindeer herding community.Royal Society open science · 2018Article
- Cooperation and the evolution of hunter-gatherer storytelling.Nature communications · 2017Article
- Hunter-Gatherer Social Networks and Reproductive Success.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Competition for Cooperation: variability, benefits and heritability of relational wealth in hunter-gatherers.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Camp stability predicts patterns of hunter-gatherer cooperation.Royal Society open science · 2016Article
- Future Discounting in Congo Basin Hunter-Gatherers Declines with Socio-Economic Transitions.PloS one · 2015Article
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Abstract
The occurrence of polygynous marriage in hunter-gatherer societies, which do not accumulate wealth, remains largely unexplored since resource availability is dependent on male hunting capacity and limited by the lack of storage. Hunter-gatherer societies offer the greatest insight in to human evolution since they represent the majority of our species' evolutionary history. In order to elucidate the evolution of hunter-gatherer polygyny, we study marriage patterns of BaYaka Pygmies. We investigate (i) rates of polygyny among BaYaka hunter-gatherers; (ii) whether polygyny confers a fitness benefit to BaYaka men; (iii) in the absence of wealth inequalities, what are the alternative explanations for polygyny among the BaYaka. To understand the latter, we explore differences in phenotypic quality (height and strength), and social capital (popularity in gift games). We find polygynous men have increased reproductive fitness; and that social capital and popularity but not phenotypic quality might have been important mechanisms by which some male hunter-gatherers sustained polygynous marriages before the onset of agriculture and wealth accumulation.
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