article_snippet: Hunting for subsistence and sharing meat is something people have done for hundreds of thousands of years.'
article_snippet: a 'winner effect' experienced by men making a kill could also be related to the status competition that hunting represents for traditional societies such as the Tsimane.
article_snippet: Almost half a century ago, it was famously documented that successful Kung hunters were jokingly insulted by others in order to 'cool their hearts' to 'make (their) gentle,' lest pride or boasting disrupt the egalitarian social system common to many foragers,' said senior co-author Michael Gurven. '
article_snippet: To conduct the study, Trumble joined the hunters as the hunters went out into the jungle and attempted to make a kill to feed the hunters families.
article_snippet: Trumble then took saliva specimens along the way, collecting saliva specimens at exact intervals.
article_snippet: Another interesting correlation, Trumble noted, is that the average Tsimane hunt lasts eight and a half hours, roughly equivalent to a workday here.