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Unpredictable homeodynamic and ambient constraints on irrational decision making of aneural and neural foragers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2019

Kevin B. Clark
Kevin B. Clark*
Affiliation:
Research and Development Service, Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA 90073; Felidae Conservation Fund, Mill Valley, CA 94941; Campus Champions, Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801; Expert Network, Penn Center for Innovation, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104; Virus Focus Group, NASA Astrobiology Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035. kbclarkphd@yahoo.comwww.linkedin.com/pub/kevin-clark/58/67/19a
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Abstract

Foraging for nutritional sustenance represents common significant learned/heritable survival strategies evolved for phylum-diverse cellular life on Earth. Unicellular aneural to multicellular neural foragers display conserved rational or irrational decision making depending on outcome predictions for noise-susceptible real/illusory homeodynamic and ambient dietary cues. Such context-dependent heuristic-guided foraging enables optimal, suboptimal, or fallacious decisions that drive organismal adaptation, health, longevity, and life history.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 42 , 2019 , e40
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