@article{Pont_2012, title={Sexual differences in the consumption of food by <em>Homo sapiens</em>: some speculations in archeogastronomy and the evolution of eating patterns}, volume={4}, url={https://revistas.uned.ac.cr/index.php/cuadernos/article/view/1}, DOI={10.22458/urj.v4i2.1}, abstractNote={&lt;p&gt;En las sociedades tradicionales, los hombres son más propensos a&lt;br /&gt;consumir grandes cantidades de alimentos en unas pocas comidas&lt;br /&gt;diarias, mientras que las mujeres tienden a consumir pequeñas&lt;br /&gt;cantidades de comida, pero con más frecuencia durante el día. Aquí&lt;br /&gt;propongo la hipótesis de que este comportamiento tiene una base&lt;br /&gt;biológica, porque en las sociedades de cazadores-recolectores, los&lt;br /&gt;hombres hacían la caza en grandes áreas y comían abundantemente&lt;br /&gt;al obtener una presa, mientras que las mujeres se movían en una&lt;br /&gt;zona más restringida, recolectaban y con frecuencia comían de los&lt;br /&gt;pequeños alimentos hallados. Sugiero que en el sentido gastronómico,&lt;br /&gt;la orientación del hombre es extra-territorial y la orientación de la mujer&lt;br /&gt;es predominantemente intra-territorial.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ABSTRACT&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In traditional societies, men are more likely to consume substantial&lt;br /&gt;amounts of food in a few daily meals, whereas women tend to consume&lt;br /&gt;smaller quantities of food but to do it more frequently during the day.&lt;br /&gt;Here I propose the hypothesis that this behavior has a biological basis&lt;br /&gt;because in hunting-gathering societies, it was the men who did the&lt;br /&gt;hunting over large areas and had to wait until a kill was made to eat&lt;br /&gt;(often a large amount of food in a single sitting), while women moved&lt;br /&gt;in a more restricted area, did the gathering and frequently ate some of&lt;br /&gt;the small pieces of food that they found. I suggest that in gastronomic&lt;br /&gt;and spatial terms, the orientation of the male is extra-territorial and the&lt;br /&gt;orientation of the female is predominantly intra-territorial.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;}, number={2}, journal={UNED Research Journal}, author={Pont, Graham}, year={2012}, month={Dec.}, pages={143–146} }