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    "title": "How did Homo Heuristicus become ecologically rational?",
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    "abstract": "Gigerenzer and colleagues have proposed the ‘adaptive toolbox of heuristics’ as an account of resource-bounded\nhuman decision-making. According to these authors, evolution has endowed such toolboxes with ‘ecological rationality’,\ndefined as the ability to make good quality decisions in their specific environments. Here we explore to what extent the\nmechanisms of evolution alone are sufficient to explain the emergence of ecologically rational toolboxes. It is not clear how\nevolution can lead to ecologically rational toolboxes within the space of possible toolboxes. That is, even if one assumes a\nvery simple environment (e.g., 10 cues and 50 decisions), the number of possible toolboxes (10ˆ72) is still astronomical. By\nusing artificial evolution simulations we investigated the evolvability of ecologically rational toolboxes. We present preliminary\nresults showing that evolution can produce toolboxes of heuristics that are “good enough” to survive, but those toolboxes are\nnot ecologically rational.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5v9538vm",
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        {
            "first_name": "Maria",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Otworowska",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Radboud University Nijmegen",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Marieke",
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            "last_name": "Sweers",
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            "institution": "Radboud University Nijmegen",
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        },
        {
            "first_name": "Robin",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Wellner",
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            "institution": "Radboud University Nijmegen",
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        },
        {
            "first_name": "Todd",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Wareham",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Memorial University of Newfoundland",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Iris",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "van Rooij",
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            "institution": "Radboud University Nijmegen",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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