Breaking bread: the functions of social eating

Communal eating, whether in feasts or everyday meals with family or friends, is a human universal, yet it has attracted surprisingly little evolutionary attention. I use data from a UK national stratified survey to test the hypothesis that eating with others provides both social and individual benef...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dunbar, R
Format: Journal article
Published: Springer International Publishing 2017

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