What is a common characteristic of hunter-gatherer societies?cooperative behavior enforced by males but not femalesone female monopolizes reproduction (like cooperative breeders)limited food sharing only with kin (parent to offspring and back)conflict within groups, but cooperation between groups (a biological market)adults tend to have roughly equal power, privilege, and ability to have offspring (unlike meerkats)

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What is a common characteristic of hunter-gatherer societies?
cooperative behavior enforced by males but not females
one female monopolizes reproduction (like cooperative breeders)
limited food sharing only with kin (parent to offspring and back)
conflict within groups, but cooperation between groups (a biological market)
adults tend to have roughly equal power, privilege, and ability to have offspring (unlike meerkats)

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Hunter-gatherer culture is a type of subsistence lifestyle that relies on hunting and fishing animals and foraging for wild vegetation and other nutrients like honey, for food. Until approximately 12,000 years ago, all humans practiced hunting-gathering.

The ancient hunter-gatherers lived in small groups, normally of about ten or twelve adults plus children. They were regularly on the move, searching for nuts, berries and other plants (which usually provided most of their nutrition) and following the wild animals which the males hunted for meat.

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