Evolution & Human Behavior
Volume 29, Issue 5 , Pages 305-318, September 2008

Reciprocal altruism, rather than kin selection, maintains nepotistic food transfers on an Ache reservation☆

  • Wesley Allen-Arave

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
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  • Michael Gurven

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anthropology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
    • ,
  • Kim Hill

      Affiliations

    • School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA

Received 9 December 2006; accepted 24 March 2008. published online 12 June 2008.

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☆ The National Science Foundation (grant no. 9617692), L. S. B. Leakey Foundation, University of New Mexico Student Research Allocations Committee, and University of New Mexico Office of Graduate Studies Research Project and Travel grants provided support for this research and its dissemination.

PII: S1090-5138(08)00040-8

doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2008.03.002

Evolution & Human Behavior
Volume 29, Issue 5 , Pages 305-318, September 2008

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