Hunter-gatherers optimize their foraging patterns using Lévy flights

Human Ecology: Contemporary Research and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 51-65

  Brown, Clifford T ^a   Liebovitch, Larry S ^a   Glendon, Rachel ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5701-6_4     Document Type: Chapter

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