
From the Vault: Mushroom Foraging, Part 2
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Foraging for Mushrooms in the Wild
Researchers followed 21 pairs of men and women from an indigenous mexican community while foraging for mushrooms in the wild. The males, they travelled farther. The males climbed to greater altitudes. They also collected fewer mushroom species and visited fewer collection sites. This is consistent with arguments in the literature that differences in spatial ability between the sexes are domain dependent.
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