To our knowledge, no one has hypothesized that humans move about the landscape
in a uniform spatial pattern, but it is not an unreasonable possibility. If resources
were uniformly, or at least redundantly, distributed across the landscape, then
groups of foragers might move relatively similar distances each time they shifted
camp. In such a case, the step lengths might be driven by external forces, such as
the locations of other social groups, rather than by the distribution of resources.
Other scenarios might also be imagined that would lead to a relatively even pattern
of movements. Regardless of the possible reason, the Ju/’hoansi step length data do
not match well to a uniform distribution (Table 2). The test statistic yields p = 0.000,
allowing us to reject the hypothesis.