Carpe diem: adaptation and devaluing the future
Abstract
Organisms typically "discount the future" in their decision making, but the extent to which they do so varies across species, sexes, age classes, and circumstances. This variability has been studied by biologists, economists, psychologists, and criminologists. We argue that the conceptual framework required for an interdisciplinary synthesis of knowledge in this area is the evolutionary adaptationist analysis of reproductive effort scheduling pioneered by George Williams.
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Cues of environmental risk that drive fast LH strategy also prompt higher risk-taking, preference for immediate rewards, and impulsivity.
“The cues of environmental risk that drive the choice of the strategy will also prompt higher risk-taking in other domains (e.g., exploration, fighting, dangerous sexual displays), preference for immediate over delayed rewards, and impulsivity (Chisholm, 1999; Daly and Wilson, 2005).”
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- Authors
- Daly, M., & Wilson, M.
- Affiliations
- McMaster University (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Daly, Martin
- Wilson, Margo
- ORCID
- Daly, Martin
- Venue
- The Quarterly Review of Biology
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2005-03
- Volume
- 80
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 55-60
- ISSN
- 0033-5770 (ISSN-L)
- 1539-7718
- OpenAlex
- W2020933607
- Cited by
- 197
- References
- 22
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- FWCI
- 5.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Quarterly Review of Biology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- University of Chicago
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Keywords
- future discounting, time preference, George Williams, adaptive evolution, intergenerational trade-offs, life history, decision-making, interdisciplinary synthesis
- MeSH terms
- Age Factors, Animals, Biological Evolution, Female, Forecasting, Humans, Male, Reproduction, Knowledge
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