How We Evolved To Browse The Web
The decisions we make while we browse the internet are suprisingly similar to the ones animals make as they forage for food...here's why.
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Show Notes
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Optimality models: tools used to evaluate the costs and benefits of different organismal features, traits, and characteristics, including behavior, in the natural world.
- Optimal foraging theory: a behavioral ecology model that helps predict how an animal behaves when searching for food.
- Marginal value theorem: an optimality model that describes the strategy that maximizes gain per unit time in systems where resources, and thus rate of returns, decrease with time.
- Central place foraging: a model for analyzing how an organism traveling from a home base to a distant foraging location can maximize foraging rates.
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