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The purpose of exchange helps shape the mode of exchange
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 February 2005
Abstract:
In his state-of-the-art review, Gurven compares evolutionary theories of food transfers in ethnographic settings. Although this is useful, I suggest that one must first try to determine the utility of food transfers before making predictions about which parties ought to receive food. In addition, I argue that tests of kin selection theory present a special problem in food transfers.
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