| Literature DB >> 25024179 |
Abstract
This paper applies the theory of the evolution of risk-taking in the presence of idiosyncratic and environmental risks to the example of food hoarding by animals and explores implications of the resulting theory for human attitudes toward risk.Entities:
Keywords: evolutionary bet hedging; gambling; geometric mean; squirrel's dilemma; storage
Mesh:
Year: 2014 PMID: 25024179 PMCID: PMC4113914 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1400817111
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ISSN: 0027-8424 Impact factor: 11.205