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假设，这些假设涉及影响西澳大利亚州Mardu家族和乐队（猎人和觅食者）之间食物获取和分享的变化的因素。每个人在获取食物和分配物品以维持社会关系的方式上都是不同的。特别是，该项目将调查男子和妇女如何以不同的方式和为不同的目的使用食物。研究人员将专注于收集有关觅食选择，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社会信号和供应之间的利益权衡。该项目将有助于我们了解男性和女性的工作有何不同，为什么有时候差异比其他时候大，以及男性和女性如何从他们所做的工作中获得地位，以及他们如何分配他们的劳动产品。

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.