Mardu Food Acquisition and Distribution

0075289 -鸟和鸟这个进化生态学的探索性项目将测试一些关于影响西澳大利亚Mardu家庭和群体（猎人和觅食者）之间食物获取和分享变化的因素的假设。个体在获取食物和分配物品以维持社会关系的方式上各不相同。特别是，这个项目将调查男性和女性如何以不同的方式和不同的目的使用食物。研究人员将集中收集关于觅食选择、能量回报率、时间分配和食物分配模式的初步数据，并将测试男性是否面临着从社会信号和供应中获得好处之间的权衡。该项目将有助于我们理解男性和女性的工作有何不同，为什么有时比其他时候差异更大，以及男性和女性如何从他们所从事的工作中获得地位，以及他们如何分配劳动产品。

0075289 - Bird and BirdThis exploratory project in evolutionary ecology will test a number of hypotheses concerning the factors that influence variability in food acquisition and sharing among families and bands of the Mardu of Western Australia (hunters and foragers). Individuals vary in the foods the acquire and in the ways the distribute goods to maintain social relationships. In particular, this project will investigate how men and women use food in different ways and for different purposes. The researchers will focus on collecting preliminary data on foraging choices, energy return rates, time allocation and food distribution patterns, and will test to see if men face tradoffs between the benefits that can be had from social signaling and those from provisioning. The project will contribute to our understanding of how men's and women's work differs, why it differs more at some times than at others, and how men and women gain status from the kinds of work they do and how they distribute the products of their labor.