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According to Wikipedia, John M. McNamara is an English mathematical biologist and Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Biology in the School of Mathematics at the University of Bristol. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 2012. In 2013, he and Alasdair Houston jointly received the ASAB Medal, and in 2014, he received the Weldon Memorial Prize. In 2018, he was awarded the Sewall Wright Award from the American Society of Naturalists.

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The behavioural ecology of personality: consistent individual differences from an adaptive perspective (2004) (1191)
Information and its use by animals in evolutionary ecology. (2005) (1182)
State-dependent life histories (1996) (787)
General results concerning the trade-off between gaining energy and avoiding predation (1993) (633)
The Common Currency for Behavioral Decisions (1986) (581)
Starvation and Predation as Factors Limiting Population Size (1987) (524)
The sexual selection continuum (2002) (438)
The value of fat reserves and the tradeoff between starvation and predation (1990) (387)
Incorporating rules for responding into evolutionary games (1999) (374)
Conflict between parents over care. (2005) (367)
Evolutionary game theory (2010) (354)
Optimal patch use in a stochastic environment (1982) (294)
Capital breeding and income breeding: their meaning, measurement, and worth. (2009) (294)
Comparison of the Hanbury Brown–Twiss effect for bosons and fermions (2006) (281)
The application of statistical decision theory to animal behaviour. (1980) (280)
Integrating function and mechanism. (2009) (267)
Optimal foraging and learning (1985) (255)
A theoretical investigation of the fat reserves and mortality levels of small birds in winter (1993) (245)
Risk-sensitive foraging: A review of the theory (1992) (243)
Models of Adaptive Behaviour: An Approach Based on State (1999) (238)
Foraging routines of small birds in winter: a theoretical investigation (1994) (234)
Evolutionarily stable levels of vigilance as a function of group size (1992) (230)
A framework for the functional analysis of behaviour (1988) (227)
Memory and the efficient use of information. (1987) (222)
Bayes' theorem and its applications in animal behaviour (2006) (215)
The coevolution of choosiness and cooperation (2008) (213)
Population fluctuations, reproductive costs and life-history tactics in female soay sheep (1996) (210)
Genetic algorithms and evolution. (1990) (202)
Optimal annual routines: behaviour in the context of physiology and ecology (2008) (194)
The evolution of decision rules in complex environments (2014) (190)
How to maximize reward rate on two variable-interval paradigms. (1981) (175)
Variation in behaviour promotes cooperation in the Prisoner's Dilemma game (2004) (174)
Capital or income breeding? A theoretical model of female reproductive strategies (2007) (173)
Partial preferences and foraging (1987) (167)
Optimal moult strategies in migratory birds (2008) (167)
Should young ever be better off with one parent than with two (2003) (167)
The value of food: effects of open and closed economies (1989) (165)
An Evolutionary Approach to Offspring Desertion in Birds (1996) (161)
Evolution of trust and trustworthiness: social awareness favours personality differences (2008) (153)
Singing to attract a mate: a stochastic dynamic game (1987) (152)
The Effect of a Change in Foraging Options on Intake Rate and Predation Rate (1994) (152)
The Evolution of Transgenerational Integration of Information in Heterogeneous Environments (2015) (148)
Deterioration, death and the evolution of reproductive restraint in late life (2009) (148)
Why hoard? The economics of food storing in tits, Parus spp. (1990) (146)
The timing of migration within the context of an annual routine (1998) (140)
A dynamic game-theoretic model of parental care. (2000) (135)
The job search problem as an employer–candidate game (1990) (134)
Phenotypic plasticity as a state-dependent life-history decision (1992) (133)
A general theory of central place foraging for single-prey loaders (1985) (132)
Cues and the optimal timing of activities under environmental changes (2011) (131)
A general framework for understanding the effects of variability and interruptions on foraging behaviour (1987) (129)
On the Evolution of Personalities via Frequency-Dependent Selection (2012) (123)
Cues, strategies, and outcomes: how migrating vertebrates track environmental change (2014) (121)
Predicting demographically sustainable rates of adaptation: can great tit breeding time keep pace with climate change? (2013) (116)
Variation and the response to variation as a basis for successful cooperation (2010) (114)
The effect of energy reserves and food availability on optimal immune defence (2007) (113)
Sexual Conflict about Parental Care: The Role of Reserves (2002) (112)
Mammalian choices: combining fast-but-inaccurate and slow-but-accurate decision-making systems (2008) (110)
A self-consistent approach to paternity and parental effort. (2002) (110)
Multiple patterns of parental care (1999) (110)
Information is a fitness enhancing resource (2010) (108)
Do we expect natural selection to produce rational behaviour? (2007) (104)
The ideal free distribution when competitive abilities differ: an approach based on statistical mechanics (1988) (102)
John Maynard Smith and the importance of consistency in evolutionary game theory (2006) (102)
Genes as cues: phenotypic integration of genetic and epigenetic information from a Darwinian perspective. (2015) (101)
Decision-making under uncertainty: biases and Bayesians (2011) (100)
Sexual conflict over parental investment in repeated bouts: negotiation reduces overall care (2012) (98)
Annual routines of non‐migratory birds: optimal moult strategies (2006) (96)
Ideal free distributions under predation risk (1996) (95)
When is it adaptive to be patient? A general framework for evaluating delayed rewards (2012) (95)
Teaching with Evaluation in Ants (2007) (94)
Towards a richer evolutionary game theory (2013) (94)
The hidden cost of information in collective foraging (2005) (93)
Optimal daily routines of singing and foraging in a bird singing to attract a mate (2004) (91)
Detection vs. selection: integration of genetic, epigenetic and environmental cues in fluctuating environments. (2016) (88)
Foraging currencies, metabolism and behavioural routines. (2014) (87)
Stress, resource allocation, and mortality (2005) (86)
A theoretical analysis of the energetic costs and consequences of parental care decisions. (2002) (82)
A Theoretical Investigation of the Effect of Latitude on Avian Life Histories (2008) (82)
Cooperation among non-relatives evolves by state-dependent generalized reciprocity (2011) (81)
On evolutionary explanations of cognitive biases. (2013) (80)
Instability of black hole inner horizons (1978) (80)
A general technique for computing evolutionarily stable strategies based on errors in decision-making. (1997) (80)
Acquisition and maintenance costs in the long-term regulation of avian fat reserves (1997) (78)
Degenerate Bose-Fermi mixture of metastable atoms. (2006) (77)
Capital and income breeding: the role of food supply. (2014) (75)
Song, sexual selection, starvation and strategic handicaps (1993) (75)
THE POLICY WHICH MAXIMISES LONG-TERM SURVIVAL OF AN ANIMAL FACED WITH THE RISKS OF STARVATION AND PREDATION (1990) (74)
Dyar's Rule and the Investment Principle: optimal moulting strategies if feeding rate is size-dependent and growth is discontinuous (1997) (70)
Risk-Prone Behaviour Under Rules Which Have Evolved in a Changing Environment (1996) (67)
Optimal life histories: a generalisation of the Perran-FrobeniusTheorem (1991) (65)
Divorce Rates in Birds: Predictions from an Optimization Model (1996) (65)
Does natural selection favour the Rescorla-Wagner rule? (2012) (64)
An Adaptive Response to Uncertainty Generates Positive and Negative Contrast Effects (2013) (64)
Currencies For Foraging Based on Energetic Gain (1997) (60)
A Unifying Framework for Metapopulation Dynamics (2002) (60)
Migration speed and scheduling of annual events by migrating birds in relation to climate change (2007) (59)
The Starvation-Predation Trade-Off And Some Behavioural and Ecological Consequences (1990) (58)
Natural selection can favour ‘irrational’ behaviour (2014) (57)
Generalized Optimal Risk Allocation: Foraging and Antipredator Behavior in a Fluctuating Environment (2012) (57)
State-dependent life history evolution in Soay sheep: dynamic modelling of reproductive scheduling. (1996) (57)
Fighting for food: a dynamic version of the Hawk-Dove game (2005) (56)
Timing in a fluctuating environment: environmental variability and asymmetric fitness curves can lead to adaptively mismatched avian reproduction (2012) (54)
Violations of transitivity under fitness maximization (2007) (54)
A model of risk-sensitive foraging for a reproducing animal (1991) (54)
A theoretical investigation of the effect of predators on foraging behaviour and energy reserves (2005) (54)
Implicit frequency dependence and kin selection in fluctuating environments (1995) (52)
Assessing predation risk: optimal behaviour and rules of thumb. (2003) (50)
Learning rules for optimal selection in a varying environment: mate choice revisited (2006) (50)
State-dependent life-history theory and its implications for optimal clutch size (1992) (50)
When to parasitize? A dynamic optimization model of reproductive strategies in a cooperative breeder. (2004) (50)
On the Evolution and Optimality of Mood States (2013) (49)
Dynamic optimization in fluctuating environments (1995) (48)
Evolutionarily stable strategies in the repeated hawk–dove game (1991) (48)
Animal Communication Theory: Information and Influence (2011) (48)
A model for the evolutionary maintenance of monogyny in spiders. (2008) (47)
The Starvation-Predation Trade-Off Predicts Trends in Body Size, Muscularity, and Adiposity between and within Taxa (2012) (43)
Behaviour of scalar perturbations of a Reissner-Nordström black hole inside the event horizon (1978) (43)
Credible threats and promises. (2002) (43)
The evolution of unconditional strategies via the 'multiplier effect'. (2011) (42)
State-dependent ideal free distributions (1990) (42)
Optimal life histories for structured populations in fluctuating environments (1997) (41)
The variability of behaviour and constrained optimization (1985) (40)
Ways to test stochastic dynamic programming models empirically (2000) (40)
Metastable helium Bose-Einstein condensate with a large number of atoms (2006) (40)
Simple learning rules to cope with changing environments (2008) (39)
An ESS model for divorce strategies in birds (1999) (38)
Do parents make independent decisions about desertion? (2002) (38)
Stability and value of male care for offspring: is it worth only half the trouble? (2007) (37)
The influence of mortality on the behaviour that maximizes reproductive success in a patchy environment (1986) (37)
The maximization of overall reinforcement rate on concurrent chains. (1987) (37)
Control of a Diffusion by Switching between Two Drift-Diffusion Coefficient Pairs (1984) (37)
Environmental variability can select for optimism or pessimism. (2011) (37)
Optimal foraging for multiple nutrients in an unpredictable environment. (2011) (37)
The effect of variability on host feeding and reproductive success in parasitoids (1992) (36)
The parental investment models of Maynard Smith: a retrospective and prospective view (2013) (36)
Towards an Evolutionary Theory of Stress Responses. (2020) (35)
Animal migration: linking models and data beyond taxonomic limits (2009) (35)
Interruptions to foraging and learning in a changing environment (1999) (35)
Debating Sexual Selection and Mating Strategies (2006) (34)
Sperm Allocation Strategies and Female Resistance: A Unifying Perspective (2008) (33)
Sexual conflict over parental care promotes the evolution of sex differences in care and the ability to care (2015) (32)
Adaptive between-individual differences in social competence. (2013) (32)
Combining Prey Choice and Patch Use—What Does Rate-maximizing Predict? (1993) (32)
Phenotypic plasticity in fluctuating environments: consequences of the lack of individual optimization (1998) (32)
The effects of background mortality on optimal reproduction in a seasonal environment. (2004) (32)
Fatness and fitness: exposing the logic of evolutionary explanations for obesity (2016) (32)
Relative allocation on concurrent schedules can depend on schedule parameters when behavioral parameters are constant. (1987) (32)
The hawk-dove game as an average cost problem (1991) (31)
Switching between resources and the ideal free distribution (1987) (31)
A Dynamic Model of Hypothermia as an Adaptive Response by Small Birds to Winter Conditions (2002) (31)
The ecological rationality of state-dependent valuation. (2012) (30)
Risk‐Averse Foraging in Bees: A Comment on the Mode of Harder and Real (1990) (30)
Reputation can enhance or suppress cooperation through positive feedback (2015) (30)
The distribution of animals between resources: a compromise between equal numbers and equal intake rates (1995) (29)
The job-search problem with competition: an evolutionarily stable dynamic strategy (1993) (29)
Optimal annual routines: new tools for conservation biology? (2008) (29)
Simultaneous magneto-optical trapping of a boson-fermion mixture of metastable helium atoms. (2004) (28)
Paying for information: partial loads in central place foragers (2006) (27)
The erroneous signals of detection theory (2017) (27)
Measurement error and estimates of population extinction risk (2004) (26)
If animals know their own fighting ability, the evolutionarily stable level of fighting is reduced. (2005) (25)
Female choice of matings to maximise parental care. (1997) (25)
Optimal Control of the Diffusion Coefficient of a Simple Diffusion Process (1983) (24)
Homonuclear ionizing collisions of laser-cooled metastable helium atoms (14 pages) (2006) (24)
Risk attitudes in a changing environment: An evolutionary model of the fourfold pattern of risk preferences. (2015) (24)
Understanding the placebo effect from an evolutionary perspective (2013) (23)
Dynamic kin selection (1994) (23)
Should females prefer to mate with low-quality males? (2008) (23)
Game Theory in Biology (2020) (23)
Timing of entry into diapause: optimal allocation to 'growth' and 'reproduction' in a stochastic environment (1994) (23)
State-dependent contests for food (1989) (23)
Clarifying the relationship between prospect theory and risk-sensitive foraging theory (2014) (22)
The effect of environmental variability on growth (1990) (22)
The optimal coyness game (2009) (22)
On the need for a sensitive analysis of optimization models, or, "This simulation is not as the former" (1992) (21)
Is optimism optimal? Functional causes of apparent behavioural biases (2012) (20)
Cooperation should not be assumed. (2006) (20)
The effect of foraging parameters on the probability that a dive is successful (2003) (19)
State-dependent life-history equations (1993) (19)
Timing of avian reproduction in unpredictable environments (2011) (19)
Rick-sensitive foraging in common shrews: an interruption model and the effects of mean and variance in reward rate (1985) (18)
Is it better to give information, receive it, or be ignorant in a two-player game? (2006) (18)
Trust your gut: using physiological states as a source of information is almost as effective as optimal Bayesian learning (2018) (18)
The effect of thermoregulatory substitution on optimal energy reserves of small birds in winter (2004) (18)
Adaptive learning can result in a failure to profit from good conditions: implications for understanding depression (2015) (18)
Echoes of Early Life: Recent Insights From Mathematical Modeling (2018) (17)
Patch choice and population size (1997) (16)
Butane dehydrogenation over Pt/alumina: activation, deactivation and the generation of selectivity (2003) (16)
Male rank and optimal lek size (1999) (16)
Evolutionary paths in strategy space: an improvement algorithm for life-history strategies. (1993) (16)
A regularity condition on the transition probability measure of a diffusion process (1985) (15)
Cross inhibition improves activity selection when switching incurs time costs (2015) (15)
Environmental variability, reliability of information and the timing of migration (2020) (15)
An optimal sequential policy for controlling a Markov renewal process (1985) (15)
Quantifying male attractiveness (2003) (15)
Heteronuclear ionizing collisions between laser-cooled metastable helium atoms (2007) (15)
The Scaling of Diving Time Budgets: Insights from an Optimality Approach (2008) (15)
The starvation-predation trade-off shapes the strategic use of protein for energy during fasting. (2014) (14)
The influence of the starvation–predation trade‐off on the relationship between ambient temperature and body size among endotherms (2015) (14)
An inelastic neutron scattering spectroscopic investigation of the adsorption of ethene and propene on carbon (2000) (14)
The state of Darwinian theory (2011) (14)
Finite-horizon dynamic optimisation when the terminal reward is a concave functional of the distribution of the final state (1998) (13)
Robustness in a variable environment (2012) (12)
In delay there lies no plenty (1988) (12)
A general expression for the reproductive value of information (2016) (12)
A classification of dynamic optimization problems in fluctuating environments (2000) (12)
An adaptive response to uncertainty can lead to weight gain during dieting attempts (2016) (11)
It is optimal to be optimistic about survival (2012) (11)
Gradients of season length and mortality risk cause shifts in body size, reserves and reproductive strategies of determinate growers (2018) (11)
Learning leads to bounded rationality and the evolution of cognitive bias in public goods games (2019) (11)
Costs of Foraging Predispose Animals to Obesity-Related Mortality when Food Is Constantly Abundant (2015) (11)
Matching Behaviours and Rewards (2021) (10)
Song, starvation, sexual selection and strategic handicaps (1992) (10)
Seasonal dispersal of pests: one surge or two? (2009) (10)
Sequential choices using signal detection theory can reverse classical predictions (2018) (9)
Genes as Cues of Relatedness and Social Evolution in Heterogeneous Environments (2016) (9)
Imperfectly optimal animals (1984) (7)
The Evolutionarily Stable Exploitation of a Renewing Resource (1995) (7)
Risk-sensitive foraging and temperature (1990) (6)
Optimal foraging of a reproducing animal as a discounted reward problem (1994) (6)
Behavioural flexibility and reputation formation (2020) (6)
Models of diving and data from otters: comments on Nolet et al (1993) (1994) (6)
Ecological Genetic Conflict: Genetic Architecture Can Shift the Balance between Local Adaptation and Plasticity (2019) (5)
Comparing pleasure and pain: the fundamental mathematical equivalence of reward gain and shock reduction under variable interval schedules. (2012) (5)
Producing and Detecting Correlated Atoms (2006) (5)
Hybrid analytical/neural network model of variable displacement pump dynamics (1997) (5)
The effect of adaptive behaviour on the stability of population dynamics (2001) (5)
Understanding invasions in patchy habitats through metapopulation theory (2006) (5)
Learning, exploitation and bias in games (2021) (5)
The evolution of cooperation by negotiation in a noisy world (2017) (5)
Communication as information use: Insights from statistical decision theory (2011) (4)
The evolution of social learning as phenotypic cue integration (2020) (4)
Offspring desertion in birds (1996) (4)
A dynamic framework for the study of optimal birth intervals reveals the importance of sibling competition and mortality risks (2015) (4)
Introduction. Adaptation to the annual cycle (2008) (4)
Effects of parental survival on clutch size decisions in fluctuating environments (1998) (4)
Game Theory in Biology: Moving beyond Functional Accounts (2021) (4)
An evolutionary perspective on stress responses, damage and repair (2022) (4)
Dynamic modeling in behavioral ecology: by Marc Mangel and Colin W. Clark, Princeton University Press (Monographs in Behavior and Ecology Series), 1988. $45.00 hbk, $15.95 pbk (xii + 308 pages) ISBN 0 691 08506 4 (1989) (3)
Game theory in biology: 50 years and onwards (2023) (2)
A critical analysis of the titration procedure introduced by Abrahams and Dill (1989) (1998) (2)
A Quantum Degenerate Mixture of Metastable Helium-3 and Helium-4 Atoms (2009) (2)
AN OPTIMAL SEQUENTIAL POLICY FOR CONTROLLING (1985) (2)
Policy Improvement and the Newton–Raphson Algorithm for Renewal Reward Processes (1989) (2)
Erratum: Homonuclear ionizing collisions of laser-cooled metastable helium atoms [Phys. Rev. A 73, 032713 (2006)] (2007) (2)
Hanbury Brown Twiss effect for bosons versus fermions (2006) (2)
Modelling Natural Action Selection: Do we expect natural selection to produce rational behaviour? (2011) (1)
The value of information in central-place foraging (2006) (1)
Butane dehydrogenation over a Pt/alumina catalyst (2003) (1)
MULTIPLE STABLE AGE DISTRIBUTIONS IN A POPULATION AT EVOLUTIONARY STABILITY (1994) (1)
There's no such thing as a free lunch (1988) (1)
Optimal gut size of small birds and its dependence on environmental and physiological parameters. (2018) (1)
Dynamic Optimisation in Fluctuating Environments (2001) (1)
Optimal immunity over the annual cycle in nonmigratory birds (2006) (1)
Towards a behavioural ecology of obesity (2017) (1)
Optimal Stopping for a Markov Process: A New Characterisation of the Optimal Policy (1980) (1)
Ultracold metastable helium-4 and helium-3 gases (2008) (1)
The next state of the art (1991) (1)
Behavioural specialization and learning in social networks (2022) (0)
Production of a degenerate Fermi gas of metatsable helium-3 atoms (2006) (0)
Modelling feeding and drinking motivations: A way to improve welfare in domestic ruminants (2012) (0)
Co-evolution of Traits (2020) (0)
The Ecological and Economic Conditions of Exploitation Strategies (2017) (0)
Patient Staging for Aeromedical Evacuation (2003) (0)
Supplementary material from "The erroneous signals of detection theory" (2017) (0)
Ultimate (Re)Thinking for Behavioural Biology (2019) (0)
A Large Atom Number Metastable Helium Bose-Einstein Condensate (2005) (0)
Influence of Maternal Care on Mesotocin Receptor Expression in Female Domestic Chicks and Association with Chick Welfare (2022) (0)
Social interaction can select for reduced ability (2022) (0)
Games Embedded in Life (2020) (0)
Adaptive accounts of physiology and emotion (2000) (0)
Learning in Large Worlds (2020) (0)
Ecological genetic conflict between specialism and plasticity through genomic islands of divergence (2018) (0)
Cross inhibition of drives improves activity selection (2013) (0)
Setting the Scene (2020) (0)
Why do birds get divorced (2002) (0)
Study of catalyzed wall-flow and foam-type fine particulate filters (2003) (0)
Effects of Epitaxial Growth and Subsequent Processing on Simox Soi Electrical Defect Density (1992) (0)
your using as a source of information is almost as effective as optimal Bayesian learning. (2018) (0)
06 09 01 9 v 1 4 S ep 2 00 6 Producing and Detecting Correlated Atoms (2006) (0)
limitsmigration: linking models and data beyond taxonomic (2009) (0)
State-Dependent Models and Behavior@@@Models of Adaptive Behaviour (2000) (0)
VII.3. Game Theory and Behavior (2013) (0)
Effects of increased predation risk on the population dynamics of migratory birds: Optimal annual routine simulations (2006) (0)
Standard Examples (2020) (0)
Timing of avian reproduction in unpredictable environments (2011) (0)
Cues, strategies, and outcomes: how migrating vertebrates track environmental change (2014) (0)
Optimal Birth Intervals model v1.0 (2015) (0)
Future Perspectives (2020) (0)
Deposited in DRO : 30 May 2014 Version of attached le : Published Version Peer-review status of attached (2014) (0)
Dyar's Law is suboptimal: growth at the moult and instar durations in arthropods (1994) (0)
Appendix B from M. Wolf and J. M. Mcnamara, " on the Evolution of Personalities via Frequency-dependent Selection " Overview, Design Concepts, and Details (odd) Protocol for Individual-based Computer Simulations Process Overview and Scheduling Design Concepts (2012) (0)
Variation, Consistency, and Reputation (2020) (0)
The Hawk–Dove game as an average-cost problem (1991) (0)
Central Concepts (2020) (0)
Structured Populations and Games over Generations (2020) (0)
Quantum degenerate gases of metastable helium atoms (2008) (0)
Erratum (2003) (0)
limits Animal migration : linking models and data beyond taxonomic (2009) (0)
The evolution of decision rules in 1 complex environments 2 3 The Modelling Animal Decisions group (2016) (0)
A Stochastic Differential Game with Safe and Risky Choices (1988) (0)
in late life Deterioration , death and the evolution of reproductive restraint (2009) (0)
Interaction, Negotiation, and Learning (2020) (0)
Stability Concepts: Beyond Nash Equilibria (2020) (0)
Quantum Coherence in an (2005) (0)

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