Question

Kristen Hawkes bolstered this hypothesis with evidence that its focal people boost group fitness among the Hadza by focusing on provisioning. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this controversial hypothesis to explain a human life history stage. It argues that menopause had evolutionary benefits by raising investment in “alloparenting,” or supporting others’ children.
ANSWER: grandmother hypothesis
[10h] This feminist primatologist argued that humans are allomothering (“allo-mothering”) “cooperative breeders.” This author of Mother and Others critiqued evolutionary theory’s neglect of female agency in The Woman That Never Evolved.
ANSWER: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy (“HUR-dee”)
[10e] Hrdy (“HUR-dee”) rejects the idea that this field “worked against women.” Hrdy’s teacher, E. O. Wilson, pre-fixed “socio-” to this field to name a “new synthesis” of evolutionary and social sciences.
ANSWER: biology [or biological sciences; accept sociobiology; prompt on bio] (Wilson also coined the term “alloparenting”)
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Data

TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3Total
Berkeley AChicago D001010
BrownClaremont Colleges001010
Chicago AGeorgia Tech001010
Chicago BRutgers100010
Cornell ANorth Carolina B001010
DukeWUSTL A001010
IndianaBerkeley B001010
Iowa StateToronto A001010
MarylandStanford001010
McGillChicago C001010
MichiganWaterloo1001020
Minnesota AIllinois001010
NYUMinnesota B001010
OttawaColumbia A1001020
PurduePenn0000
TexasArizona State001010
Toronto BColumbia B100010
Truman StateVanderbilt0000
VirginiaFlorida1001020
WUSTL BSouth Carolina0000

Summary

TournamentEditionExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2024 ACF Nationals04/21/2024Y2010.0075%25%0%