ArticleEvolutionary human sciences2022
Women carry for less: body size, pelvis width, loading position and energetics.
Article in Evolutionary human sciences, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Homo sapiens, industrialisation and the environmental mismatch hypothesis.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Review
- Morphological Influences and Energetic Walking Flexibility in Determining Preferred vs. Optimal Speeds: An Evolutionary Human Ecology Perspective on Children and Adolescents.American journal of biological anthropology · 2025Article
- Energetic Value of Women's Work: Assessing Maternal Energetic Costs From Acorn Foraging.American journal of biological anthropology · 2025Article
- Infant-carrying mechanisms in a natural environment: the case of Qashqai nomad.Evolutionary human sciences · 2024Article
- There is an obstetrical dilemma: Misconceptions about the evolution of human childbirth and pelvic form.American journal of biological anthropology · 2023Review
- The Myth of Man the Hunter: Women's contribution to the hunt across ethnographic contexts.PloS one · 2023Article
- Variability and the form-function framework in evolutionary biomechanics and human locomotion.Evolutionary human sciences · 2022Review
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Abstract
The energetic cost of walking varies with mass and speed; however, the metabolic cost of carrying loads has not consistently increased proportionally to the mass carried. The cost of carrying mass, and the speed at which human walkers carry this mass, has been shown to vary with load position and load description (e.g. child vs. groceries). Additionally, the preponderance of women carriers around the world, and the tendency for certain kinds of population-level sexual dimorphism has led to the hypothesis that women might be more effective carriers than men. Here, I investigate the energetic cost and speed changes of women (
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