And a 75 year old is as effective as a 25 year old!
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Replying to @DavidDPaxton @hjoneshojo
I suspect older hunters are also good at convincing their keen young companions to take the obviously stupid risks, having seen what happens before
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Yes - to the extent that hunting is a social activity, mightn't this just show that 50 year-old men have more social power than younger ones?
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Replying to @stianwestlake @edwest and
also bad hunters probably don't reach the older samples
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Replying to @leftoutside @edwest and
Maybe not just because they die - to the extent there's non-hunting activity done by men, you'd expect it to be done by older men (=time to learn skills) who aren't the best hunters.
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Replying to @stianwestlake @leftoutside and
I dont know enough about this area but if youre not a good hunter in a hunter-gatherer society you're pretty screwed right? It's not like there are that many other career options surely?
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Replying to @edwest @stianwestlake and
this thread need
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Data for that graph comes from two societies, both of which aren't actually hunter-gatherers but forager-horticulturalists doing some hunting. Here's caloric production per day + time spent from the paper that data comes from. Further, one of the societies hunts with shotguns.pic.twitter.com/1Sie4XcC16
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Replying to @Evolving_Moloch @hbdchick and
So time spent hunting in those societies peaks at 25 and actual caloric production peaks about 30-35. The loess smoothing in the graph
@DegenRolf shared is also misleading because you can't see how many data points there are. Unlikely there was actually anyone 70yrs old in sample1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes -
Replying to @Evolving_Moloch @hbdchick and
That is from the paper.pic.twitter.com/hJfwWwxUOz
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