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Comparative analyses between (groups of) individuals from the same species.
Introduction
Within-species comparisons refer to comparative analyses between (groups of) individuals from the same species. These may be naturally occurring groups within the same population such as males and females (Gur and Gur 2017), or juveniles and adults (Adjorlolo and Egbenya 2016; Lobue 2009), or groups comprised of individuals varying in other behaviorally relevant characteristics (such as sociality, Ashton et al. 2018, or personality, Roche et al. 2016). Useful comparisons may also be made between geographically or temporally discrete populations of the same species. Such populations may vary culturally (Apicella and Barrett 2016; Luncz et al. 2018) or along relevant environmental gradients (Roth and Pravosudov 2009; Van Lange et al. 2017). Within-species comparisons also occur in experimental settings, with individuals randomly...
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Sulikowski, D. (2020). Within-Species Comparisons. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_2230-1
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