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SUBMITTER: Santostefano F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5647303 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20171001 1864
The pace-of-life syndrome (POLS) hypothesis predicts associations between life history and 'risky' behaviours. Individuals with 'fast' lifestyles should develop faster, reproduce earlier, exhibit more risk-prone behaviours, and die sooner than those with 'slow' lifestyles. While support for POLS has been equivocal to date, studies have relied on individual-level (phenotypic) patterns in which genetic trade-offs may be masked by environmental effects on phenotypes. We estimated genetic correlatio ...[more]