Département des Sciences Biologiques, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2010 Dec 27;365(1560):3937-46. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0222.
This introduction to the themed issue on Evolutionary and ecological approaches to the study of personality provides an overview of conceptual, theoretical and methodological progress in research on animal personalities over the last decade, and places the contributions to this volume in context. The issue has three main goals. First, we aimed to bring together theoreticians to contribute to the development of models providing adaptive explanations for animal personality that could guide empiricists, and stimulate exchange of ideas between the two groups of researchers. Second, we aimed to stimulate cross-fertilization between different scientific fields that study personality, namely behavioural ecology, psychology, genomics, quantitative genetics, neuroendocrinology and developmental biology. Third, we aimed to foster the application of an evolutionary framework to the study of personality.
本主题专刊的介绍对过去十年中动物个性研究的概念、理论和方法进展进行了概述，并将本卷的贡献置于背景之中。本专刊有三个主要目标。首先，我们旨在召集理论家们为动物个性的适应性解释模型的发展做出贡献，为经验主义者提供指导，并激发这两组研究人员之间的思想交流。其次，我们旨在促进研究个性的不同科学领域之间的交叉，这些领域包括行为生态学、心理学、基因组学、数量遗传学、神经内分泌学和发育生物学。第三，我们旨在促进将进化框架应用于个性研究。
