Does Environmental Knowledge Inhibit Hominin Dispersal?

摘要: We investigated the relationship between dispersal potential of a hominin population, its local-scale foraging strategies, and characteristics resource environment using an agent-based modeling approach. In previous work we demonstrated that natural selection can favor relatively low capacity for assessing predicting quality environment, especially when distribution resources is highly clustered. That also suggested more knowledge populations had about their less likely they were to abandon landscape know disperse into novel territory. The present study gives agents new individual social strategies learning environment. For both learning, favors decreased levels environmental knowledge, particularly in low-heterogeneity environments. Social acquisition detailed results crowding agents, which reduces available reproductive space relative fitness. Agents with move away from clusters areas reproduction. These suggest that, rather than being requirement successful dispersal, strengthens ties particular locations significantly as result. evolved level population depends on affects population.