Optimality approaches incorporating a consideration of the current costs and benefits of
particular actions are used to consider which behavioural strategies are likely to be the most …

Ecology is that branch of science that aims at explaining the relationships between
organisms and their physical and biotic environments. Model building is generally used in …

Within evolutionary ecology, there is a substantial tradition treating natural selection as an
optimizing agent tending to produce maximal adaptedness to the environment. This includes …

Behavioral ecology is the study of" how behavior is influenced by natural selection in
relation to ecological conditions'(p. ix). The first edition of this book (1978) defined the field; …

In the last two decades, two approaches to the analysis of variation in life history traits,
including morphological, physiological, and behavioral components, have been actively …

1996). The objective was to incorporate aspects of the dynamical theory of selection on
genotypes, sometimes called the population genetic approach to evolution, into the …

A common misunderstanding of evolutionary biology is caused by the fallacious idea that
natural selection typically acts in a way that creates adaptations for the 'benefit of the …

Optimization theory in biology is concerned with discovering the constraints under which
organisms exist. In behavioural ecology, optimization studies have served to identify the …

The papers in this collection represent a number of very different disciplines, reflecting the
extent to which evolutionary ideas have appeared relevant to a wide variety of inquiries. The …

Lewontin (1961), and Maynard-Smith & Price (1973) have applied game theory to evolution.
Lewontin (1961) focused attention on the interaction between a species and its environment …