A research team led by UA anthropologist David Raichlen has
found that the Hadza tribe’s movements while foraging can be described by a
mathematical pattern called a Lévy walk – a pattern that also is found in the
movements of many other animals.
A mathematical pattern of movement called a Lévy walk
describes the foraging behavior of animals from sharks to honey bees, and now
for the first time has been shown to describe human hunter-gatherer movement as
well. The study, led by University of Arizona anthropologist David Raichlen,
was published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.