Ache Life History: The Ecology and Demography of a Foraging PeopleThe Ache, whose life history the authors recounts, are a small indigenous population of hunters and gatherers living in the neotropical rainforest of eastern Paraguay. This is part exemplary ethnography of the Ache and in larger part uses this population to make a signal contribution to human evolutionary ecology. |
Contents
THE ACHE | |
STUDY POPULATION AND SAMPLING METHODS | |
AGE AND SEX STRUCTURE OF THE STUDY POPULATION | |
CAUSES OF MORTALITY | |
RATES OF MORTALITY | |
DEVELOPMENT MARRIAGE AND OTHER LIFE COURSE | |
RESOURCE AVAILABILITY INTRINSIC VARIATION | |
BODY SIZE AND THE TIMING OF SEXUAL MATURITY | |
LIFE HISTORY TRADEOFFS AND PHENOTYPIC | |
KIN EFFECTS ON LIFE HISTORY | |
CONCLUSIONS | |
Appendix A Implications of Stable Age Models for Deriving Kung | |
Five Genealogies with Multiple Generations | |
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Aché Life History: The Ecology and Demography of a Foraging People Kim Hill,A. Magdalena Hurtado No preview available - 1996 |
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Ache children Ache data Ache population Ache women adulthood age estimates age-specific fertility analyses band behavioral biological body weight born cause of death Chapter characterized club fights cohort contact period correlation demographic parameters effect females fertility and mortality fertility rates Figure fitness foraging forest period function genetic grandmother hypothesis groups Guarani higher fertility history theory history traits human hunter-gatherers hunting impact increase independent variables individuals infant mortality interviews jaguar killed Kung latent variable live births logistic regression marriage mean menarche menopause mortality hazard mother natural selection Northern Ache number of living observed offspring survival older optimal Paraguay Paraguayan parental investment patterns phenotypic probability rank reaction norms relationship relative age list reported reproductive histories reproductive span reproductive value reservation period result risk sample secondary fathers senescence sex ratio sexual siblings ſº suggest survivorship Table trade-off variation Yanomamo