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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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