While social learning is widespread, indiscriminate copying of others is rarely beneficial.
Theory suggests that individuals should be selective in what, when, and whom they copy, by …

This year is the 50th anniversary of Tinbergen's (1963) article 'On aims and methods of
ethology', where he first outlined the four 'major problems of biology'. The classification of the …

Integrative explanations of why obesity is more prevalent in some sectors of the human
population than others are lacking. Here, we outline and evaluate one candidate …

The idea that individual differences in behavior and physiology can be partly understood by
linking them to a fast-slow continuum of life history strategies has become popular in the …

Cognition is defined as the processes by which animals collect, retain and use information
from their environment to guide their behaviour. Thus cognition is essential in a wide range …

Models and experiments on adaptive decision-making typically consider highly simplified
environments that bear little resemblance to the complex, heterogeneous world in which …

All basic processes of ecological populations involve decisions; when and where to move,
when and what to eat, and whether to fight or flee. Yet decisions and the underlying …

Abstract Development in many organisms appears to show evidence of sensitive windows—
periods or stages in ontogeny in which individual experience has a particularly strong …

Human behavioral ecology (HBE) is the study of human behavior from an adaptive
perspective. It focuses in particular on how human behavior varies with ecological context …

Purpose The main objective of this study is to evolve the basis of beneficial impact
assessment of international marketing strategy (IMS) for emerging market multinationals by …