FIGURE 3. Evolution of personalities.

From the following article:

Life-history trade-offs favour the evolution of animal personalities

Max Wolf, G. Sander van Doorn, Olof Leimar & Franz J. Weissing

Nature 447, 581-584(31 May 2007)

doi:10.1038/nature05835

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Simulations illustrating the evolution of consistent individual differences between superficial explorers (red) and thorough explorers (blue). a, When individuals face two hawk–dove games superficial explorers evolve high levels of aggressiveness in both games, whereas thorough explorers are consistently non-aggressive. b, Confronted with both an anti-predator and a hawk–dove game a behavioural syndrome evolves: superficial explorers are bold and aggressive, whereas thorough explorers are shy and non-aggressive. These outcomes are robust across replicate simulations. c and d summarize the outcome of 20 replicate simulations for the scenarios in a and b, respectively. Each simulation is represented by two circles corresponding to the evolved trait combinations of superficial and thorough explorers. Black lines indicate the trait combinations for the simulations depicted in a and b.

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