Across many domains of decision making, people seem both rational and irrational. We review recent work that aims to reconcile these apparently contradictory views by modeling human decisions as optimal under a set cognitive resource constraints. This ‘resource-rational’ analysis connects psychology neuroscience ideas from engineering, economics, machine learning. Here, we focus on an informati...

In an 1854 lecture, TH Huxley suggested that physiology should be measured by its contribution to science, practical worth and the extent which it made a branch of education. Since macrophysiology, or investigation variation in physiological traits over large geographical temporal scales ecological implications this variation, is well-established approaching third decade, these questions are po...