Patch leaving in humans: can a generalist adapt its rules to dispersal of items across patches?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1331-1349

  Hutchinson, John M C ^a   Wilke, Andreas ^a,b   Todd, Peter M ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Concorde fallacy; delay minimization; evolutionary psychology; giving up time; incremental rule; marginal value theorem; optimal foraging; rule of thumb; simple heuristic; task switching

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DISPERSAL; EVOLUTION; FORAGE; GENERALIST; HEURISTICS; PATH ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 40849136320     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.09.006     Document Type: Article

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