ANT211H5 Midterm: ANT211 Study Sheet #2
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Birds in new guinea-> male birds don"t help child rearing they devote time to seduce as many females as possible. They inject sperm into female mammals and leave. Human males often stay after copulation and baby. Men use to hunt and women gather plant foods and care for children. Men are much better able to track and kill animals because they are more muscular than women and they don"t have an infant attached to them. Modern day-> many women still devote more time to children and men work for money for food. Hazda men get higher average returns than ache men by hunting big game over small game. They on average do more hours of work and are paid less. Men can become infertile or less fertile at various ages for various reasons. But men experience no universal shutdown of fertility. Women go through a decline of fertility from age 40: some women get their period till 54/55.
