Toward wild psychometrics: Linking individual cognitive differences to fitness

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1299-1301

  Thornton, Alex ^a   Isden, Jess ^a   Madden, Joah R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cognition; evolution; heritability; individual differences; natural selection; psychometrics

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; HERITABILITY; NUMERICAL METHOD; POPULATION GENETICS; PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 84913531952     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/aru095     Document Type: Article

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