ReviewBiology letters2018
Understanding the evolution of personality requires the study of mechanisms behind the development and life history of personality traits.
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- Personality in Capuchin Monkeys (Sapajus apella): Comparison of Assessment Methods and Constructs.American journal of primatology · 2026Article
- Individualised niches: an integrative conceptual framework across behaviour, ecology, and evolution.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Review
- Personality development in non-domesticated house mice: evidence for a nutrition-dependent sensitive period early in life.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Competitive social feedback amplifies the role of early life contingency in male mice.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2025Article
- Personality traits and their correlation with behavior in the bonnet macaque (Macaca radiata) in southern India.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Is the speed of adjusting to environmental change condition dependent? An experiment with house mice (Current zoology · 2024Article
- Sex-specific competitive social feedback amplifies the role of early life contingency in male mice.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Evolutionary psychiatry: foundations, progress and challenges.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2023Article
- Age, but not hand preference, is related to personality traits in common marmosets (Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- Low heritability and high phenotypic plasticity of salivary cortisol in response to environmental heterogeneity in a wild pinniped.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Personality, density and habitat drive the dispersal of invasive crayfish.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- DNA Epigenetics in Addiction Susceptibility.Frontiers in genetics · 2022Review
- Developmental conditions promote individual differentiation of endocrine axes and behavior in a tropical pinniped.Oecologia · 2021Article
- Early-life environmental enrichment generates persistent individualized behavior in mice.Science advances · 2020Article
- Adaptive reshaping of the hormonal phenotype after social niche transition in adulthood.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Long-term consistency of personality traits of cattle.Royal Society open science · 2020Article
- Sex differences in longitudinal personality stability in chimpanzees.Evolutionary human sciences · 2020Article
- Within-Family Environment and Cross-Fostering Stress Affect Behavior and Physiology in Wild Cavies (Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Repeatable glucocorticoid expression is associated with behavioural syndromes in males but not females in a wild primate.Royal Society open science · 2019Article
- The adaptive shaping of social behavioural phenotypes during adolescence.Biology letters · 2018Review
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Abstract
Research on animal personality explains the coexistence of distinct behavioural phenotypes within a species and demonstrates limits to individual plasticity. However, the mechanisms guiding the lifelong development of personality should receive more attention, because many elements of personality are emergent properties of interactions between the environment and an individual's genetic background. In these interactions, mechanisms (e.g. genetic regulatory networks, epigenetic processes and neuroendocrine regulation) influencing personality may be modified. An approach integrating proximate mechanisms with a view of lifelong personality development will crucially improve understanding stability, plasticity and inter-individual variability of personalities and clarify the effects of selection on the phenomenon.
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