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Search, in its broadest sense, is an activity not only of modern man, but of man in his most primitive state and of animals capable of motion directed by senses. Looking for food, prey, shelter, mates, and detecting hostile animals or natural dangers, are operations without which they could not survive. During our evolution we have acquired such a set of instincts involving search in this primitive sense that — as in breathing or walking— we habitually give it little conscious thought. Only with the advance of modern technology have we learned to examine search in the light of science: as an operation having various structural patterns and obeying laws of its own.
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Koopman, B.O. (1980). General Operation of Search. In: Haley, K.B., Stone, L.D. (eds) Search Theory and Applications. NATO Conference Series, vol 8. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9188-7_2
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