ANTHROP 3401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Human Behavioral Ecology, Optimal Foraging Theory, Hemoglobin E
17 Feb 2017
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Neo-darwinism: recall, more born than can live to reproduce, due to environmental constraints, individuals have heritable differences that affect survivorship, over multiple generations differential mortality and fertility will remove less adaptive variants. Natural selection and decision making optimal behavior: southwest. Anthro 3401: ee and hbe rest on the assumption that natural selection results in optimizing organisms (mcnamara et al. 2001): optimizing pursuits , more time for reproductive pursuits, higher success in procuring reproductive opportunities, greater success in procuring high quality items, food, territory, social status, etc. Natural selection and decision making time allocation: humans are constantly pursuing a number of goals, food, mates, parental investment, social bonds/status, raw materials, etc, the choice to optimize one may reduce the optimality of other pursuits. Prey choice model: mcarthur and pianka (1966: which food items will be pursued, assumptions, forager has perfect knowledge of environment.
