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Food insecurity of fatness: from evolutionary ecology to social science

Anthropology

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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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