Knowledge of resources and competitors in human foraging
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How do groups of people allocate themselves to resources? Do people, like many other animal species (Fretwell & Lucas, 1970), distribute themselves so as to cover resources in an approximately optimal fashion? In this work, we were particularly interested in the role of knowledge in influencing group foraging behavior. We manipulated two types of information that animals might use in determining where to allocate their foraging time. These sources of information are the distributions of resources and of other foragers.
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تاریخ انتشار 2005