Testing the Evolutionary Genetics of Personality: Do Balanced Selection and Gene Flow Cause Genetically Adapted Personality Differences in Human Populations?

The Evolution of Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Ciani, Andrea Camperio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Balancing selection; Individual differences; Mutation selection; Neutral selection; Personality assays

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921591554     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195372090.003.0015     Document Type: Chapter

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