Evolutionary origins of temporal discounting: Modeling how time and uncertainty constrain optimal decision-making strategies across taxa

• Brian Villmoare,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

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• David Klein,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of California, San Luis Obispo, California, United States of America

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• Pierre Liénard †,

  † Deceased.

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

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• Timothy S. McHale

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: TsMcHale@calpoly.edu

  Affiliation Social Sciences Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9715-5062

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