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Preference for a hypothesis: Is the case “closed”?
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This article is published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.The article was published on 1985-07-01. It has received 3 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Preference.read more
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Citation classic - optimal foraging - a selective review of theory and tests
TL;DR: A review of the literature on optimal foraging can be found in this article, with a focus on the theoretical developments and the data that permit tests of the predictions, and the authors conclude that the simple models so far formulated are supported by available data and that they are optimistic about the value both now and in the future.
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Mechanisms of optimal choice
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare the performance of the parameter-free delay-reduction hypothesis with those of optimal foraging theory, developed by behavioral ecologists, showing that the two positions make comparable predictions.
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Delay-reduction theory: Straddling the functional-mechanism continuum
Edmund Fantino,Nureya Abarca +1 more
TL;DR: The strategy of assessing parameters of foraging with operant laboratory analogues to foraging and the predictions of the delay-reduction hypothesis are compared with those of optimal foraging theory, developed by behavioral ecologists, showing that, with two exceptions, the two positions make comparable predictions.
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The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors criticise the adaptationist program for its inability to distinguish current utility from reasons for origin (male tyrannosaurs may have used their diminutive front legs to titillate female partners, but this will not explain why they got so small).
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Optimal foraging, the marginal value theorem.
TL;DR: This paper will develop a model for the use of a “patchy habitat” by an optimal predator and depresses the availability of food to itself so that the amount of food gained for time spent in a patch of type i is hi(T), where the function rises to an asymptote.