Evidence of Lévy walk foraging patterns inhuman hunter-gatherers

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 728-733

  Raichien, David A ^a   Wood, Brian M ^b   Gordon, Adam D ^c   Mabuiia, Audax Z P ^d,h   Marlowe, Frank W ^e   Pontzer, Herman ^f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^g New York Consortium for Evolutionary Primatology   (United States)

^h National Museums of Tanzania   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Brownian motion; Levy flight; Optimal foraging; Scale invariance; Superdiffusion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; FOOD; FORAGING; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; APPETITE; BROWNIAN MOTION; ETHNIC GROUP; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HISTORY; LÉVY FLIGHT; LOCOMOTION; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; OPTIMAL FORAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SCALE INVARIANCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUPERDIFFUSION; TANZANIA;

BROWNIAN MOTION; LÉVY FLIGHT; OPTIMAL FORAGING; SCALE INVARIANCE; SUPERDIFFUSION;

APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ETHNIC GROUPS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TANZANIA;

EID: 84892567089     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1318616111     Document Type: Article

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