Status does not predict stress: Women in an egalitarian hunter-gatherer society.

ABSTRACT: It is widely believed that there is strong association between physiological stress and an individual's social status in their social hierarchy. This has been claimed for all humans cross-culturally, as well as in non-human animals living in social groups. However, the relationship between stress and social status has not been explored in any egalitarian hunter-gatherer society; it is also under investigated in exclusively female social groups. Most of human evolutionary history was spent in small, mobile foraging bands of hunter-gatherers with little economic differentiation - egalitarian societies. We analysed women's hair cortisol concentration along with two domains of women's social status (foraging reputation and popularity) in an egalitarian hunter-gatherer society, the Hadza. We hy

SUBMITTER: Fedurek P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10427491 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature