Human Foragers: Searchers by Nature and Experience.

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

SUBMITTER: Maya C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10358407 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature