Optimality Theory Steps
- Created by: BethCuddington
- Created on: 09-12-16 13:12
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- Optimality Theory Steps of Analysis
- 1. Identify Problem (decision variable)
- E.G. what food to eat
- 2. Choose currency (currency variable)
- E.G. Trying to maximise rate of food intake
- 3. Identify alternative solutions and constraints (constraint variable)
- E.G. Alternative food sources in environment
- 4. Quantify costs and benefits of alternatives and currency
- E.G. Calories, grams of fat/carbs/protein. Time to catch and eat.
- 5. Assume appropriate genetic variation has arisen in organisms' history and the population is at the end of an evolutionary process
- 1. Identify Problem (decision variable)
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