Spatial Adaptations for Plant Foraging: Women Excel and Calories Count

We present evidence for an evolved sexually dimorphic adaptation that activates spatial memory and navigation skills in response to fruits, vegetables and other traditionally gatherable sessile food resources. In spite of extensive evidence for a male advantage on a wide variety of navigational task...

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Veröffentlicht in:Proceedings: Biological Sciences. - The Royal Society. - 274(2007), 1626, Seite 2679-2684
1. Verfasser: New, Joshua (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Krasnow, Max M., Truxaw, Danielle, Gaulin, Steven J. C.
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2007
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Proceedings: Biological Sciences
Schlagworte:Foraging adaptations Sex differences Optimal foraging theory Spatial cognition Navigation Behavioral sciences Biological sciences Applied sciences Physical sciences Social sciences
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520 |a We present evidence for an evolved sexually dimorphic adaptation that activates spatial memory and navigation skills in response to fruits, vegetables and other traditionally gatherable sessile food resources. In spite of extensive evidence for a male advantage on a wide variety of navigational tasks, we demonstrate that a simple but ecologically important shift in content can reverse this sex difference. This effect is predicted by and consistent with the theory that a sexual division in ancestral foraging labour selected for gathering-specific spatial mechanisms, some of which are sexually differentiated. The hypothesis that gathering-specific spatial adaptations exist in the human mind is further supported by our finding that spatial memory is preferentially engaged for resources with higher nutritional quality (e.g. caloric density). This result strongly suggests that the underlying mechanisms evolved in part as adaptations for efficient foraging. Together, these results demonstrate that human spatial cognition is content sensitive, domain specific and designed by natural selection to mesh with important regularities of the ancestral world. 
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