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Complex Reproductive Traits and Whole-Organism Performance.
Integrative and comparative biology - 1 Aug 2017
Orr T J, Garland Theodore
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SYNOPSIS: Arnold's 1983 path-analytic paradigm, considering "morphology, performance, and fitness," has been elaborated in several ways. For example, current versions recognize the level of "behavior" (including aspects of motivation) as a filter between performance abilities (only measurable if motivation is maximal) and fitness components. Performance abilities constrain behavior, but behavioral choices may...
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