The tale of the screaming hairy armadillo, the guinea pig and the marginal value theorem
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2019, Journal of Archaeological ScienceCitation Excerpt :The MVT states that the optimal behavior is to leave a patch when the slope of the gain curve (the marginal rate) falls to the overall optimal rate for the environment (Charnov 1976; Parker and Stuart, 1976); see Stephens and Krebs (1986) for a review. In behavioral ecology the usual use of models based on the MVT involves starting from a knowledge of the environment (gain curve, travel time) and predicting the time spent in each type of patch (Cassini et al., 2009; Cowie, 1977; Kacelnik, 1984; Schmid-Hempel et al., 1985). In the context of human behavior, the MVT has been used not just to investigate foraging (e.g. Burger et al., 2005; Zeanah et al., 2015; Bettinger and Grote, 2016; Zeanah, 2017) but also movement patterns (Codding et al., 2016; Venkataraman et al., 2017) and the replacement of artefacts such as stone tools (Kuhn and Miller, 2015).
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