
Food insecurity of fatness: from evolutionary ecology to social science
Anthropology
Optimal Energy Balance and Survival
This chapter explores the adaptive decision-making process of how much to eat in order to maximize long-term survival, taking into account the costs and benefits of having fat reserves and the concept of stochastic dynamic programming.
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