Food Acquisition Activities in Human Evolution

Flashcards focused on key concepts related to food acquisition and hunting in human evolution.

Scavenging

The act of obtaining meat by waiting for other animals to die or kill other animals.

Provisioning Hypothesis

The theory that meat's nutritional value led to male parental investment in offspring by bringing back hunted meat.

Show Off Hypothesis

The idea that hunting for large game provides social status and mating opportunities for successful hunters.

Essential Nutrients

Nutrients that a species cannot produce itself and must obtain from its diet, often found in meat for humans.

Frugivore Hypothesis

A theory suggesting that early humans, like other primates, preferred fruits in their diet before becoming substantial meat eaters.

Cave drawings

Archaeological evidence suggesting that ancestral human beings valued hunting, as depicted in ancient artwork.

Male coalitions

Groups of males working together, theorized to have arisen from selective pressures related to hunting.