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Mike Gurven – Implications of personality variation in a small-scale society

Mike Gurven: UCSBPersonality traits (i.e. behavioral syndrome or disposition) have now been documented in a large number of species, and account for substantial behavioral variation among individuals. How heritable variation in personality is generated and maintained in populations, however, remains a puzzle to evolutionary biologists. Despite the industry of personality research in humans, relatively little […]

Sharlene E. Santana – Adaptive evolution of facial color patterns in mammals

Sharlene E. Santana: UCLAThe rich morphological diversity of mammal faces has captured the attention of naturalists for over a century. Researchers have long proposed that social behaviors have primarily shaped the intraspecific variation and interspecific diversity in the faces of some visually-oriented groups such as primates. However, mammal faces constitute complex structures where the potentially […]