Why （and how） personalities in invertebrates？

作     者：Mather Jennifer (Guest Editor) 

作者机构：Psychology Department University of Lethbridge Canada Lethbridge T1K 3M4 

出 版 物：《Current Zoology》 (动物学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2012年第58卷第4期

页      面：566-566页

核心收录：

学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 07[理学] 0701[理学-数学] 071002[理学-动物学] 070101[理学-基础数学] 

主　　题：无脊椎动物 人物 组成部分 行为 个性 复杂性 水龙头 安德森 

摘      要：This underlines the magnitude of the task of understanding invertebrate personalities. Invertebrates make up 98% of the animals on the planet and their diversity is immense. Invertebrates have vastly different physiologies, hugely different life histories and socializations shape them, and yet individual differences in behavior are found everywhere we look. Those groups we have evaluated for personality have the most complex nervous systems and behavior. Will simpler invertebrates show the same complexity of individual differences? Will personality differences last across different life history contexts and stages? Is the construct of personality (Gosling, 2001) strong enough to stand up to this variation? Only time and more investigation will tell us.