Home range behaviour is a common pattern of space use, having fundamental
consequences for ecological processes. However, a general mechanistic explanation is still …

The Centre for Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition (ABC) has hypothesised that much human
decision-making can be described by simple algorithmic process models (heuristics). This …

Gerd Gigerenzer's influential work examines the rationality of individuals not from the
perspective of logic or probability, but from the point of view of adaptation to the real world of …

How do people make decisions when time is limited, information unreliable, and the future
uncertain? Based on the work of Nobel laureate Herbert Simon and with the help of …

Models of Adaptive Behaviour sets out a framework for adaptive explanations of behaviour,
and applies this to give analyses of a range of biological issues such as energetic gain …

Although most decision research concerns choice between simultaneously presented
options, in many situations options are encountered serially, and the decision is whether to …

This paper first considers the implications of biological evolution for economic preferences. It
analyzes why utility functions evolved, considers evidence that utility is both hedonic and …

Behavioural ecology often makes the assumption that animals can respond flexibly by
adopting the optimal behaviour for each circumstance. However, as ethologists have long …

We present a series of criticisms of the application of optimization theory to the behaviour
and morphology of animals, using the example of optimal foraging theory. The criticisms are …

The restricted area of space used by most mobile animals is thought to result from fitness‐
rewarding decisions derived from gaining information about the environment. Yet …