Human Foragers: Searchers by Nature and Experience. (4th April 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Human Foragers: Searchers by Nature and Experience. (4th April 2019)
- Main Title:
- Human Foragers: Searchers by Nature and Experience
- Authors:
- Maya, César
Rosetti, Marcos F.
Pacheco-Cobos, Luis
Hudson, Robyn - Abstract:
- Diverse studies of human foraging have revealed behavioral strategies that may have evolved as adaptations for foraging. Here, we used an outdoor experimental search task to explore the effect of three sources of information on participants' performance: (i) information obtained directly from performing a search, (ii) information obtained prior to testing in the form of a distilled snippet of knowledge intended to experimentally simulate information acquired culturally about the environment, and (iii) information obtained from experience of foraging for natural resources for economic gain. We found that (i) immediate searching experience improved performance from the beginning to the end of the short, 2-min task, (ii) information priming improved performance notably from the very beginning of the task, and (iii) natural resource foraging experience improved performance to a lesser extent. Our results highlight the role of culturally transmitted information as well as the presence of mechanisms to rapidly integrate and implement new information into searching choices, which ultimately influence performance in a foraging task.
- Is Part Of:
- Evolutionary psychology. Volume 17:Number 2(2019)
- Journal:
- Evolutionary psychology
- Issue:
- Volume 17:Number 2(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 17, Issue 2 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 17
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0017-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- Page End:
- Publication Date:
- 2019-04-04
- Subjects:
- cultural transmission -- information acquisition -- large-scale tests -- foraging experience -- searching behavior
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Human evolution -- Psychological aspects -- Periodicals
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http://www.uk.sagepub.com/home.nav ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/1474704919839729 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1474-7049
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