Here is what I don't get: Why does eating a fruit enhance the ability to search for fruit?
If you imagine a person starving then they need food. So currently they don't have this enhanced searching ability, so they fail and starve. And a different person finds a tree with fruit and now they can find another tree with fruit, BUT they already have one?!
So for me it makes more sense to have the starving person forget everything else and focus on searching and the non-starving person can rest.
What I'm trying to say is, how do the researchers know that this is a foraging adaption pathway?
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Here is what I don't get: Why does eating a fruit enhance the ability to search for fruit?
If you imagine a person starving then they need food. So currently they don't have this enhanced searching ability, so they fail and starve. And a different person finds a tree with fruit and now they can find another tree with fruit, BUT they already have one?!
So for me it makes more sense to have the starving person forget everything else and focus on searching and the non-starving person can rest.
What I'm trying to say is, how do the researchers know that this is a foraging adaption pathway?