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Human behavioral ecology

the proposal that men target large, widely shared game less to feed their families than to gain social attention and favors from others.

In human behavioral ecology, show-off hypothesis refers to the proposal that men target large, widely shared game less to feed their families than to gain social attention and favors from others. This meaning comes from Hawkes (1991) in Ethology and Sociobiology.[1]

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References

Hawkes, K. (1991). Showing off. Ethology and Sociobiology, 12(1), 29-54. https://doi.org/10.1016/0162-3095(91)90011-e

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