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1Research 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.
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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