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Review
. 2010 Dec 27;365(1560):4051-63.
doi: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0208.

Personality and the emergence of the pace-of-life syndrome concept at the population level

Denis Réale  1 , Dany Garant, Murray M Humphries, Patrick Bergeron, Vincent Careau, Pierre-Olivier Montiglio
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Review

Personality and the emergence of the pace-of-life syndrome concept at the population level

Denis Réale et al. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. .

Abstract

The pace-of-life syndrome (POLS) hypothesis specifies that closely related species or populations experiencing different ecological conditions should differ in a suite of metabolic, hormonal and immunity traits that have coevolved with the life-history particularities related to these conditions. Surprisingly, two important dimensions of the POLS concept have been neglected: (i) despite increasing evidence for numerous connections between behavioural, physiological and life-history traits, behaviours have rarely been considered in the POLS yet; (ii) the POLS could easily be applied to the study of covariation among traits between individuals within a population. In this paper, we propose that consistent behavioural differences among individuals, or personality, covary with life history and physiological differences at the within-population, interpopulation and interspecific levels. We discuss how the POLS provides a heuristic framework in which personality studies can be integrated to address how variation in personality traits is maintained within populations.

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Figure 1.
Schematic of the potential integration of different traits along a pace-of-life continuum. Double arrows illustrate presumed continuous variation in life-history strategies among individuals in a population, and its assumed relationship with personality and physiological traits.
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