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Question

Eric Charnov’s marginal value theorem studies this behavior to explain how humans efficiently balance energy gain and consumption. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this one of the four modes of subsistence along with horticulture, pastoralism, and agriculture. Marshall Sahlins studied this lifestyle among the San people and called it the “original affluent society.”

ANSWER: foraging [accept word forms like foragers; accept hunting, gathering, or word forms like hunter or gatherers; accept optimal foraging theory]

[10m] Pirolli and Card have applied optimal foraging theory to human search patterns for this resource. In 1996, Manuel Castells described how an “age” of this resource is replacing the Industrial Age by creating a “network society.”

ANSWER: information [accept information foraging; accept information society or Information Age; prompt on internet by asking “what resource does the internet provide?”]

[10h] Evolutionary anthropologists often analyze human foraging using a framework of “four questions” devised by this Nobel Prize-winning Dutch biologist considered a father of the field of ethology.

ANSWER: Nikolaas Tinbergen [or Niko Tinbergen]

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2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	7	18.57	86%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	2	10.00	50%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	10.00	50%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	6	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	5	14.00	40%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	15.00	50%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	14.00	60%	60%	20%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%

Data


Boston College B	Tufts B	10	10	0	20
Brandeis A	Brandeis B	10	10	0	20
Clark House	Bowdoin B	10	10	0	20
Bowdoin C	Clark Wilson	10	10	0	20
Virginia Tech A	Virginia Tech C	0	0	0	0
North Carolina B	Virginia Tech B	10	10	0	20
Truman	Missouri	10	10	0	20
WashU	Squidward Community College	10	10	0	20
Tufts A	Boston College A	10	10	0	20
Yale	Harvard	0	10	0	10
In the Mood for Buzz	she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique	10	10	10	30
Madmen and Specialists	ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline	10	0	0	10
Old and Young	bingy academy	10	0	0	10
Social credit go vroom	Paddington in Peru (2024)	10	10	0	20
Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans	The cult of SGA	10	0	0	10
Penn State	Pitt	10	10	0	20
Maryland	RIT	0	0	0	0
UCF B	USF	10	10	0	20
UF B	UF A	10	10	0	20
UCF A	UF C	10	10	0	20
Valencia	Florida Tech	10	10	0	20
Stanford	Berkeley A	10	0	0	10
Stanford	Berkeley A	10	0	0	10
Stanford	Berkeley A	10	0	0	10
Stanford	Berkeley A	10	0	0	10
Stanford	Berkeley A	10	0	0	10
Stanford	Berkeley A	10	0	0	10
Stanford	Berkeley A	10	0	0	10
Stanford	Berkeley A	10	0	0	10
Berkeley Past	Berkeley B	10	10	0	20
McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii	Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha	10	0	10	20
Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	Toronto A	10	10	0	20
Waterloo Aspidistra	Toronto B	10	10	10	30
Toronto Metropolitan A	McGill A	10	0	0	10
Waterloo Basic	Toronto Disband the Club 2k24	10	0	10	20
Waterloo Cloze	Carleton A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech C	Milton	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech D	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	Notre Dame	10	10	0	20
Innovation Academy A	Mississippi State	0	10	0	10
Innovation Academy B	Innovation Academy C	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Johns Creek	10	10	0	20
Illinois Orange	Illinois Blue	0	10	0	10
Chicago B	Purdue B	10	10	0	20
SIUE	Purdue A	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Warwick A	10	0	0	10
Imperial B	LSE A	10	10	0	20
Imperial A	LSE B	0	10	10	20
Warwick B	Bristol	10	0	0	10
Southampton	Warwick C	0	10	0	10
Anderson et al.	Jason et al.	10	0	0	10
U[C]SD	Claremont	10	10	0	20
SGV Ventures	ALCU	10	10	0	20
MIT	Amherst	10	10	0	20