Benefits of grouping and cooperative hunting among ache hunter-gatherers: Insights from an agent-based foraging model

Human Ecology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 823-835

  Janssen, Marco A ^a   Hill, Kim ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based modeling; Optimal foraging theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027918853     PISSN: 03007839     EISSN: 15729915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10745-014-9693-1     Document Type: Article

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