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Modelling decision making and learning by low latitude hunter gatherers |
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| Authors: | Steven J. Mithen |
| Affiliation: | 1. Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Robotics and Intelligent System, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China;2. Shenzhen College of Advanced Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China;3. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China;4. School of Information Science and Engineering, Yunnan University, China;1. Montclair State University, United States of America;2. Nicholls State University, United States of America |
| Abstract: | Recent anthropological studies have demonstrated that low latitude ‘encounter’ foragers exploit their environments in energetically very efficient manners and closely track the environment as it changes. The paper begins to investigate how they manage to do this by proposing a simple decision making and learning rule developed from an evolutionary ecological basis. Having described the mathematical model the paper refers to simulation studies exploring this model which suggest that some of the seemingly complex aspects of hunter gatherer behaviour may result from the use of simple decision making and learning processes. |
| Keywords: | Anthropology decision learning adaptive processes |
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