Recent models for adaptive personality differences: A review

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1560, 2010, Pages 3947-3958

  Dingemanse, Niels J ^a   Wolf, Max ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive individual variation; Behavioural syndromes; Evolution; Model; Personality; Theory

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LITERATURE REVIEW; NUMERICAL MODEL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 78650587776     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0221     Document Type: Review

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