TY - JOUR
T1 - Why Men Hunt and Women Gather for Recreation? An Evolutionary Perspective
AU - Apostolou, Menelaos
AU - Shialos, Marios
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank Georgia Kapitsaki and two anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments which enabled the improvement of this work.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, Springer International Publishing.
Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2018/3
Y1 - 2018/3
N2 - People, predominantly men, spend considerable resources in engaging in hunting animals for sport. Such activity is puzzling, as men take risk and sacrifice valuable resources in killing animals, the meat of which they do not need for their subsistence. Toward solving this puzzle, an evolutionary framework was proposed, where the division of labor in ancestral human societies has resulted in men and women having evolved different mechanisms that motivate them to engage in different activities. On the basis of this framework, two hypotheses were derived. First, on average, men would tend to find hunting an enjoyable activity, while women would tend to find gathering an enjoyable activity. Second, on average, men would be willing to engage in hunting, and women would be willing to engage in gathering. Evidence from two independent studies found strong support for both hypotheses.
AB - People, predominantly men, spend considerable resources in engaging in hunting animals for sport. Such activity is puzzling, as men take risk and sacrifice valuable resources in killing animals, the meat of which they do not need for their subsistence. Toward solving this puzzle, an evolutionary framework was proposed, where the division of labor in ancestral human societies has resulted in men and women having evolved different mechanisms that motivate them to engage in different activities. On the basis of this framework, two hypotheses were derived. First, on average, men would tend to find hunting an enjoyable activity, while women would tend to find gathering an enjoyable activity. Second, on average, men would be willing to engage in hunting, and women would be willing to engage in gathering. Evidence from two independent studies found strong support for both hypotheses.
KW - Evolutionary recreational studies
KW - Fishing
KW - Gathering
KW - Hunting
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U2 - 10.1007/s40806-017-0109-5
DO - 10.1007/s40806-017-0109-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85086008811
SN - 2198-9885
VL - 4
SP - 8
EP - 16
JO - Evolutionary Psychological Science
JF - Evolutionary Psychological Science
IS - 1
ER -