Sex differences in life history, behavior, and physiology along a slow-fast continuum: a meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT: The pace-of-life syndrome (POLS) hypothesis predicts that behavior and physiology covary with life history. Evidence for such covariation is contradictory, possibly because systematic sources of variation (e.g. sex) have been neglected. Sexes often experience different selection pressures leading to sex-specific allocation between reproduction and self-maintenance, facilitating divergence in life-history. Sex-specific differences in means and possibly variances may therefore play a key role in the POLS framework. We investigate whether sexes differ in means and variances along the fast-slow pace-of-life continuum for life history and physiological and behavioral traits. In addition, we test whether social and environmental characteristics such as breeding strategy, mating system, and study

SUBMITTER: Tarka M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6060830 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature