Originally Posted by
MoAlpha
Yeah, Herman Pontzer, who authored the first cited study, and is an anthropologist, not a nutrition or exercise guy, has lots of striking data from hunter-gatherers supporting this idea. However, there is a gap between the those findings and the smaller adaptations people see in prospective exercise studies. I heard him interviewed by someone smart and there is a strong critique of his studies, which he addressed very straightforwardly. Anyway, something important and interesting is going on there.
Nancy Howell, an anthropologist who wrote the definitive study on the nutritional strategies and energy expenditures of the Dobe !Kung of the Kalahari Desert, noted that teen males had high energy expenditures when hunting and compensated by lazing about when not hunting. The !Kung called teen males "owners of the shade."