What hunter-gatherers can tell us about fundamental human social networks
Thursday, July 21, 2016 - 11:01
in Mathematics & Economics
Long before the advent of social media, human social networks were built around sharing a much more essential commodity: food. Now, researchers reporting on the food sharing networks of two contemporary groups of hunter-gatherers in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on July 21 provide new insight into fundamental nature of human social organization.