On the analysis of risk-sensitive foraging: a comment on Codding et al .
Author(s) -
Jeremy Koster
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society b biological sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1471-2954
pISSN - 0962-8452
DOI - 10.1098/rspb.2011.0985
Subject(s) - foraging , variance (accounting) , scale (ratio) , psychology , economics , geography , ecology , biology , cartography , accounting
Codding et al . [[1][1]] report that the resources pursued by Ache men involve higher energy but lower variance than the resources pursued by women. This seemingly anomalous result probably stems from a misconception about the appropriate scale for their analysis and a misunderstanding of the multi
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