Professor John Michael McNamara

All Stories

1. 
   Evolution of behavioural flexibility and the forming and breaking of habits

   Article • August 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

   Professor John Michael McNamara

2. 
   The evolutionary consequences of learning under competition

   Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, August 2024, Royal Society Publishing

   Professor John Michael McNamara

3. 
   Game theory in biology: 50 years and onwards

   Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, March 2023, Royal Society Publishing

   Professor John Michael McNamara

4. 
   Social interaction can select for reduced ability

   Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, October 2022, Royal Society Publishing

   Professor John Michael McNamara

5. 
   Behavioural specialization and learning in social networks

   Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, August 2022, Royal Society Publishing

   Professor John Michael McNamara

6. 
   The evolution of social learning as phenotypic cue integration

   Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, May 2021, Royal Society Publishing

   Professor John Michael McNamara

7. 
   Learning, exploitation and bias in games

   Article • PLOS One, February 2021, PLOS

   Professor John Michael McNamara

8. 
   Behavioural flexibility and reputation formation

   Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, November 2020, Royal Society Publishing

   Professor John Michael McNamara

9. 
   Fatness and fitness: exposing the logic of evolutionary explanations for obesity

   Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, January 2016, Royal Society Publishing

   Professor John Michael McNamara

10. 
    The influence of the starvation-predation trade-off on the relationship between ambient temperature and body size among endotherms

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, December 2015, Wiley

    Professor John Michael McNamara, Professor Simon Verhulst

11. 
    Costs of Foraging Predispose Animals to Obesity-Related Mortality when Food Is Constantly Abundant

    Article • PLOS One, November 2015, PLOS

    Professor John Michael McNamara

12. 
    Genes as cues: phenotypic integration of genetic and epigenetic information from a Darwinian perspective

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, June 2015, Elsevier

    Professor John Michael McNamara

13. 
    Adaptive learning can result in a failure to profit from good conditions: implications for understanding depression

    Article • Evolution Medicine and Public Health, April 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor John Michael McNamara

14. 
    A dynamic framework for the study of optimal birth intervals reveals the importance of sibling competition and mortality risks

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Biology, March 2015, Wiley

    Professor Thomas B L Kirkwood, Professor John Michael McNamara

15. 
    The Evolution of Transgenerational Integration of Information in Heterogeneous Environments

    Article • The American Naturalist, March 2015, University of Chicago Press

    Professor John Michael McNamara

16. 
    Sexual conflict over parental care promotes the evolution of sex differences in care and the ability to care

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, February 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor John Michael McNamara

17. 
    Reputation can enhance or suppress cooperation through positive feedback

    Article • Nature Communications, January 2015, Nature

    Professor John Michael McNamara

18. 
    Risk attitudes in a changing environment: An evolutionary model of the fourfold pattern of risk preferences.

    Article • Psychological Review, January 2015, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor John Michael McNamara

19. 
    Clarifying the relationship between prospect theory and risk-sensitive foraging theory

    Article • Evolution and Human Behavior, November 2014, Elsevier

    Professor John Michael McNamara

20. 
    The starvation–predation trade-off shapes the strategic use of protein for energy during fasting

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, October 2014, Elsevier

    Professor John Michael McNamara

21. 
    Capital and income breeding: the role of food supply

    Article • Ecology, April 2014, Wiley

    Professor John Michael McNamara

22. 
    The evolution of decision rules in complex environments

    Article • Trends in Cognitive Sciences, March 2014, Elsevier

    Tim Fawcett, Professor John Michael McNamara

23. 
    Natural selection can favour 'irrational' behaviour

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, January 2014, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor John Michael McNamara

24. 
    Cues, strategies, and outcomes: how migrating vertebrates track environmental change

    Article • Movement Ecology, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Christian Jørgensen, Professor John Michael McNamara

25. 
    The parental investment models of Maynard Smith: a retrospective and prospective view

    Article • Animal Behaviour, October 2013, Elsevier

    Professor John Michael McNamara

26. 
    On the Evolution and Optimality of Mood States

    Article • Behavioral Sciences, August 2013, MDPI AG

    Professor John Michael McNamara

27. 
    Towards a richer evolutionary game theory

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, August 2013, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor John Michael McNamara

28. 
    On evolutionary explanations of cognitive biases

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, August 2013, Elsevier

    Professor John Michael McNamara

29. 
    Foraging currencies, metabolism and behavioural routines

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, June 2013, Wiley

    Professor John Michael McNamara

30. 
    An Adaptive Response to Uncertainty Generates Positive and Negative Contrast Effects

    Article • Science, May 2013, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor John Michael McNamara

31. 
    Adaptive between-individual differences in social competence

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, May 2013, Elsevier

    Professor John Michael McNamara

32. 
    Understanding the placebo effect from an evolutionary perspective

    Article • Evolution and Human Behavior, January 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Lutz Fromhage, Professor John Michael McNamara

33. 
    Predicting demographically sustainable rates of adaptation: can great tit breeding time keep pace with climate change?

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, December 2012, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor John Michael McNamara, Professor Simon Verhulst

34. 
    Generalized Optimal Risk Allocation: Foraging and Antipredator Behavior in a Fluctuating Environment

    Article • The American Naturalist, November 2012, University of Chicago Press

    Tim Fawcett, Professor John Michael McNamara

35. 
    Does natural selection favour the Rescorla–Wagner rule?

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, June 2012, Elsevier

    Professor John Michael McNamara

36. 
    On the Evolution of Personalities via Frequency-Dependent Selection

    Article • The American Naturalist, June 2012, University of Chicago Press

    Professor John Michael McNamara

37. 
    Timing in a fluctuating environment: environmental variability and asymmetric fitness curves can lead to adaptively mismatched avian reproduction

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, May 2012, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor John Michael McNamara

38. 
    The Starvation-Predation Trade-Off Predicts Trends in Body Size, Muscularity, and Adiposity between and within Taxa

    Article • The American Naturalist, March 2012, University of Chicago Press

    Professor John Michael McNamara

39. 
    It is optimal to be optimistic about survival

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, February 2012, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor John Michael McNamara

40. 
    When is it adaptive to be patient? A general framework for evaluating delayed rewards

    Article • Behavioural Processes, February 2012, Elsevier

    Tim Fawcett, Professor John Michael McNamara

41. 
    Is optimism optimal? Functional causes of apparent behavioural biases

    Article • Behavioural Processes, February 2012, Elsevier

    Tim Fawcett, Professor John Michael McNamara

42. 
    The ecological rationality of state-dependent valuation.

    Article • Psychological Review, January 2012, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor John Michael McNamara

43. 
    Sexual conflict over parental investment in repeated bouts: negotiation reduces overall care

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, November 2011, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor John Michael McNamara

44. 
    Cues and the optimal timing of activities under environmental changes

    Article • Ecology Letters, October 2011, Wiley

    Professor John Michael McNamara

45. 
    Optimal foraging for multiple nutrients in an unpredictable environment

    Article • Ecology Letters, September 2011, Wiley

    Professor John Michael McNamara

46. 
    Timing of avian reproduction in unpredictable environments

    Article • Evolutionary Ecology, June 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John Michael McNamara

47. 
    Decision-making under uncertainty: biases and Bayesians

    Article • Animal Cognition, March 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mike Mendl, Professor John Michael McNamara

48. 
    The evolution of unconditional strategies via the ‘multiplier effect’

    Article • Ecology Letters, January 2011, Wiley

    Professor John Michael McNamara

49. 
    The state of Darwinian theory

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, December 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John Michael McNamara

50. 
    Environmental variability can select for optimism or pessimism

    Article • Ecology Letters, November 2010, Wiley

    Dr Anders Eriksson, Professor John Michael McNamara

51. 
    Cooperation among non-relatives evolves by state-dependent generalized reciprocity

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, September 2010, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor John Michael McNamara

52. 
    Variation and the response to variation as a basis for successful cooperation

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, August 2010, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor John Michael McNamara

53. 
    Information is a fitness enhancing resource

    Article • Oikos, February 2010, Wiley

    Professor John Michael McNamara

54. 
    Integrating function and mechanism

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, December 2009, Elsevier

    Professor John Michael McNamara

55. 
    Deterioration, death and the evolution of reproductive restraint in late life

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, September 2009, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Lutz Fromhage, Professor John Michael McNamara

56. 
    Capital breeding and income breeding: their meaning, measurement, and worth

    Article • Ecology, August 2009, Wiley

    Professor John Michael McNamara

57. 
    Animal migration: linking models and data beyond taxonomic limits

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, May 2009, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor John Michael McNamara, Professor Graeme C Hays

58. 
    The optimal coyness game

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, March 2009, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Lutz Fromhage, Professor John Michael McNamara

59. 
    Evolution of trust and trustworthiness: social awareness favours personality differences

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, February 2009, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor John Michael McNamara

60. 
    Mammalian choices: combining fast-but-inaccurate and slow-but-accurate decision-making systems

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, October 2008, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor John Michael McNamara

61. 
    Simple learning rules to cope with changing environments

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, October 2008, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor John Michael McNamara

62. 
    Should females prefer to mate with low-quality males?

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, October 2008, Elsevier

    Professor John Michael McNamara

63. 
    OPTIMAL ANNUAL ROUTINES: NEW TOOLS FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

    Article • Ecological Applications, September 2008, Wiley

    Professor John Michael McNamara

64. 
    A Theoretical Investigation of the Effect of Latitude on Avian Life Histories

    Article • The American Naturalist, September 2008, University of Chicago Press

    Professor John Michael McNamara

65. 
    Sperm Allocation Strategies and Female Resistance: A Unifying Perspective

    Article • The American Naturalist, July 2008, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Lutz Fromhage, Professor John Michael McNamara

66. 
    The Scaling of Diving Time Budgets: Insights from an Optimality Approach

    Article • The American Naturalist, March 2008, University of Chicago Press

    Professor John Michael McNamara

67. 
    A model for the evolutionary maintenance of monogyny in spiders

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, February 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Lutz Fromhage, Professor John Michael McNamara

68. 
    Optimal moult strategies in migratory birds

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, January 2008, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor John Michael McNamara

69. 
    The coevolution of choosiness and cooperation

    Article • Nature, January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Lutz Fromhage, Professor John Michael McNamara

70. 
    Migration speed and scheduling of annual events by migrating birds in relation to climate change

    Article • Climate Research, December 2007, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor John Michael McNamara

71. 
    The effect of energy reserves and food availability on optimal immune defence

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, November 2007, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor John Michael McNamara

72. 
    Teaching with Evaluation in Ants

    Article • Current Biology, September 2007, Elsevier

    Professor John Michael McNamara

73. 
    Parental care as a differential game: A dynamic extension of the Houston–Davies game

    Article • Applied Mathematics and Computation, July 2007, Elsevier

    Professor John Michael McNamara

74. 
    Violations of transitivity under fitness maximization

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, May 2007, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor John Michael McNamara

75. 
    Stability and value of male care for offspring: is it worth only half the trouble?

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, March 2007, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Lutz Fromhage, Professor John Michael McNamara

76. 
    Capital or income breeding? A theoretical model of female reproductive strategies

    Article • Behavioral Ecology, September 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor John Michael McNamara

77. 
    Cooperation should not be assumed

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, September 2006, Elsevier

    Professor John Michael McNamara

78. 
    Paying for information: partial loads in central place foragers

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, August 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John Michael McNamara

79. 
    State and Value

    Article • May 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor John Michael McNamara

80. 
    John Maynard Smith and the importance of consistency in evolutionary game theory

    Article • Biology & Philosophy, March 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John Michael McNamara

81. 
    Annual routines of non-migratory birds: optimal moult strategies

    Article • Oikos, March 2006, Wiley

    Professor John Michael McNamara

82. 
    Is it better to give information, receive it, or be ignorant in a two-player game?

    Article • Behavioral Ecology, January 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor John Michael McNamara

83. 
    Stress, resource allocation, and mortality

    Article • Behavioral Ecology, August 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor John Michael McNamara

84. 
    The hidden cost of information in collective foraging

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, August 2005, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor John Michael McNamara

85. 
    A theoretical investigation of the effect of predators on foraging behaviour and energy reserves

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, May 2005, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor John Michael McNamara

86. 
    Information and its use by animals in evolutionary ecology

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, April 2005, Elsevier

    Professor John Michael McNamara

87. 
    If animals know their own fighting ability, the evolutionarily stable level of fighting is reduced

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, January 2005, Elsevier

    Professor John Michael McNamara

88. 
    Conflict between parents over care

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, January 2005, Elsevier

    Professor John Michael McNamara

89. 
    The behavioural ecology of personality: consistent individual differences from an adaptive perspective

    Article • Ecology Letters, August 2004, Wiley

    Professor John Michael McNamara

90. 
    The effects of background mortality on optimal reproduction in a seasonal environment

    Article • Theoretical Population Biology, June 2004, Elsevier

    Professor John Michael McNamara

91. 
    Variation in behaviour promotes cooperation in the Prisoner's Dilemma game

    Article • April 2004, Nature

    Professor John Michael McNamara

92. 
    The effect of thermoregulatory substitution on optimal energy reserves of small birds in winter

    Article • Oikos, April 2004, Wiley

    Professor John Michael McNamara

93. 
    When to parasitize? A dynamic optimization model of reproductive strategies in a cooperative breeder

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, April 2004, Elsevier

    Professor John Michael McNamara

94. 
    Measurement error and estimates of population extinction risk

    Article • Ecology Letters, January 2004, Wiley

    Professor John Michael McNamara

95. 
    The effect of foraging parameters on the probability that a dive is successful

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, December 2003, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor John Michael McNamara

96. 
    Assessing predation risk: optimal behaviour and rules of thumb

    Article • Theoretical Population Biology, December 2003, Elsevier

    Professor John Michael McNamara

97. 
    Quantifying male attractiveness

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, September 2003, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor John Michael McNamara

98. 
    Should young ever be better off with one parent than with two?

    Article • Behavioral Ecology, May 2003, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor John Michael McNamara

99. 
    A Unifying Framework for Metapopulation Dynamics

    Article • The American Naturalist, August 2002, University of Chicago Press

    Professor John Michael McNamara

100. 
     The sexual selection continuum

     Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, July 2002, Royal Society Publishing

     Professor John Michael McNamara

101. 
     Do parents make independent decisions about desertion?

     Article • Animal Behaviour, July 2002, Elsevier

     Professor John Michael McNamara

102. 
     Sexual Conflict about Parental Care: The Role of Reserves

     Article • The American Naturalist, June 2002, University of Chicago Press

     Professor John Michael McNamara

103. 
     A theoretical analysis of the energetic costs and consequences of parental care decisions

     Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, March 2002, Royal Society Publishing

     Professor John Michael McNamara

104. 
     Optimality Models in Behavioral Biology

     Article • SIAM Review, January 2001, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

     Professor John Michael McNamara

105. 
     A Dynamic Game-theoretic Model of Parental Care

     Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, August 2000, Elsevier

     Professor John Michael McNamara

106. 
     Ways to test stochastic dynamic programming models empirically

     Article • Animal Behaviour, April 2000, Elsevier

     Professor John Michael McNamara

107. 
     Adaptive accounts of physiology and emotion

     Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, April 2000, Cambridge University Press

     Professor John Michael McNamara

108. 
     Multiple patterns of parental care

     Article • Animal Behaviour, November 1999, Elsevier

     Professor John Michael McNamara

109. 
     Incorporating rules for responding into evolutionary games

     Article • Nature, September 1999, Nature

     Professor John Michael McNamara

110. 
     An ESS model for divorce strategies in birds

     Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, January 1999, Royal Society Publishing

     Professor John Michael McNamara

111. 
     Interruptions to foraging and learning in a changing environment

     Article • Animal Behaviour, January 1999, Elsevier

     Professor John Michael McNamara

112. 
     The Timing of Migration within the Context of an Annual Routine

     Article • Journal of Avian Biology, December 1998, JSTOR

     Professor John Michael McNamara

113. 
     A critical analysis of the titration procedure introduced by Abrahams and Dill (1989)

     Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, November 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

     Professor John Michael McNamara

114. 
     Phenotypic plasticity in fluctuating environments: consequences of the lack of individual optimization

     Article • Behavioral Ecology, November 1998, Oxford University Press (OUP)

     Professor John Michael McNamara

115. 
     Finite-horizon dynamic optimisation when the terminal reward is a concave functional of the distribution of the final state

     Article • March 1998, Cambridge University Press

     Professor John Michael McNamara

116. 
     Currencies For Foraging Based on Energetic Gain

     Article • The American Naturalist, November 1997, University of Chicago Press

     Professor John Michael McNamara

117. 
     A General Technique for Computing Evolutionarily Stable Strategies Based on Errors in Decision-making

     Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, November 1997, Elsevier

     Professor John Michael McNamara

118. 
     Optimal Life Histories for Structured Populations in Fluctuating Environments

     Article • Theoretical Population Biology, April 1997, Elsevier

     Professor John Michael McNamara

119. 
     Acquisition and Maintenance Costs in the Long-Term Regulation of Avian Fat Reserves

     Article • Oikos, March 1997, JSTOR

     Professor John Michael McNamara

120. 
     Dyar's Rule and the Investment Principle: optimal moulting strategies if feeding rate is size-dependent and growth is discontinuous

     Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, January 1997, Royal Society Publishing

     Professor John Michael McNamara

121. 
     Population Fluctuations, Reproductive Costs and Life-History Tactics in Female Soay Sheep

     Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, November 1996, JSTOR

     Professor John Michael McNamara

122. 
     Risk-Prone Behaviour Under Rules Which Have Evolved in a Changing Environment

     Article • American Zoologist, September 1996, Oxford University Press (OUP)

     Professor John Michael McNamara

123. 
     Divorce Rates in Birds: Predictions from an Optimization Model

     Article • The American Naturalist, April 1996, University of Chicago Press

     Professor John Michael McNamara

124. 
     State-dependent life histories

     Article • Nature, March 1996, Nature

     Professor John Michael McNamara

125. 
     Ideal free distributions under predation risk

     Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, February 1996, Springer Science + Business Media

     Professor John Michael McNamara

126. 
     State-Dependent Life History Evolution in Soay Sheep: Dynamic Modelling of Reproductive Scheduling

     Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, January 1996, Royal Society Publishing

     Professor John Michael McNamara

127. 
     An Evolutionary Approach to Offspring Desertion in Birds

     Article • January 1996, Springer Science + Business Media

     Professor John Michael McNamara

128. 
     The Evolutionarily Stable Exploitation of a Renewing Resource

     Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, November 1995, Elsevier

     Professor John Michael McNamara

129. 
     Dynamic Optimization in Fluctuating Environments

     Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, September 1995, Royal Society Publishing

     Professor John Michael McNamara

130. 
     Implicit frequency dependence and kin selection in fluctuating environments

     Article • Evolutionary Ecology, March 1995, Springer Science + Business Media

     Professor John Michael McNamara

131. 
     The distribution of animals between resources: a compromise between equal numbers and equal intake rates

     Article • Animal Behaviour, January 1995, Elsevier

     Professor John Michael McNamara

132. 
     The Effect of a Change in Foraging Options on Intake Rate and Predation Rate

     Article • The American Naturalist, December 1994, University of Chicago Press

     Professor John Michael McNamara

133. 
     Foraging Routines of Small Birds in Winter: A Theoretical Investigation

     Article • Journal of Avian Biology, November 1994, JSTOR

     Professor John Michael McNamara

134. 
     Models of Diving and Data from Otters: Comments on Nolet et al. (1993)

     Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, October 1994, JSTOR

     Professor John Michael McNamara

135. 
     Multiple Stable Age Distributions in a Population at Evolutionary Stability

     Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, August 1994, Elsevier

     Professor John Michael McNamara

136. 
     Optimal Foraging of a Reproducing Animal as a Discounted Reward Problem

     Article • Journal of Applied Probability, June 1994, Cambridge University Press

     Professor John Michael McNamara

137. 
     Timing of Entry into Diapause: Optimal Allocation to "Growth" and "Reproduction" in a Stochastic Environment

     Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, May 1994, Elsevier

     Professor John Michael McNamara

138. 
     General Results concerning the Trade-Off between Gaining Energy and Avoiding Predation

     Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, September 1993, Royal Society Publishing

     Professor John Michael McNamara

139. 
     Combining Prey Choice and Patch Use—What Does Rate-maximizing Predict?

     Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, September 1993, Elsevier

     Professor John Michael McNamara

140. 
     State-dependent life-history equations

     Article • Acta Biotheoretica, September 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

     Professor John Michael McNamara

141. 
     A Theoretical Investigation of the Fat Reserves and Mortality Levels of Small Birds in Winter

     Article • Ornis Scandinavica, July 1993, JSTOR

     Professor John Michael McNamara

142. 
     Song, sexual selection, starvation and strategic handicaps

     Article • Animal Behaviour, June 1993, Elsevier

     Professor John Michael McNamara

143. 
     The Job-Search Problem with Competition: An Evolutionarily Stable Dynamic Strategy

     Article • Advances in Applied Probability, June 1993, Cambridge University Press

     Professor John Michael McNamara

144. 
     Evolutionary Paths in Strategy Space: An Improvement Algorithm for Life-history Strategies

     Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, March 1993, Elsevier

     Professor John Michael McNamara

145. 
     Phenotypic plasticity as a state-dependent life-history decision

     Article • Evolutionary Ecology, May 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

     Professor John Michael McNamara

146. 
     Evolutionarily stable levels of vigilance as a function of group size

     Article • Animal Behaviour, April 1992, Elsevier

     Professor John Michael McNamara

147. 
     On the Need for a Sensitive Analysis of Optimization Models, or, "This Simulation Is Not as the Former"

     Article • Oikos, April 1992, JSTOR

     Professor John Michael McNamara

148. 
     Risk-sensitive foraging: A review of the theory

     Article • The Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics, March 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

     Professor John Michael McNamara

149. 
     State-dependent life-history theory and its implications for optimal clutch size

     Article • Evolutionary Ecology, March 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

     Professor John Michael McNamara

150. 
     Risk-sensitive foraging: A review of the theory

     Article • The Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics, January 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

     Professor John Michael McNamara

151. 
     The Hawk-Dove Game as an Average-Cost Problem

     Article • Advances in Applied Probability, December 1991, Cambridge University Press

     Professor John Michael McNamara

152. 
     Optimal life histories: A generalisation of the Perron-Frobenius theorem

     Article • Theoretical Population Biology, October 1991, Elsevier

     Professor John Michael McNamara

153. 
     A model of risk-sensitive foraging for a reproducing animal

     Article • Animal Behaviour, May 1991, Elsevier

     Professor John Michael McNamara

154. 
     The next state of the art

     Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, March 1991, Cambridge University Press

     Professor John Michael McNamara

155. 
     Evolutionarily stable strategies in the repeated hawk–dove game

     Article • Behavioral Ecology, January 1991, Oxford University Press (OUP)

     Professor John Michael McNamara

156. 
     The Job Search Problem as an Employer-Candidate Game

     Article • Journal of Applied Probability, December 1990, Cambridge University Press

     Professor John Michael McNamara

157. 
     Genetic algorithms and evolution

     Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, November 1990, Elsevier

     Professor John Michael McNamara

158. 
     State-dependent ideal free distributions

     Article • Evolutionary Ecology, October 1990, Springer Science + Business Media

     Professor John Michael McNamara

159. 
     The Effect of Environmental Variability on Growth

     Article • Oikos, September 1990, JSTOR

     Professor John Michael McNamara

160. 
     Risk-Averse Foraging in Bees: A Comment on the Mode of Harder and Real

     Article • Ecology, August 1990, Wiley

     Professor John Michael McNamara

161. 
     The Policy Which Maximises Long-Term Survival of an Animal Faced with the Risks of Starvation and Predation

     Article • Advances in Applied Probability, June 1990, Cambridge University Press

     Professor John Michael McNamara

162. 
     Risk-sensitive foraging and temperature

     Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, May 1990, Elsevier

     Professor John Michael McNamara

163. 
     The value of fat reserves and the tradeoff between starvation and predation

     Article • Acta Biotheoretica, March 1990, Springer Science + Business Media

     Professor John Michael McNamara

164. 
     Why hoard? The economics of food storing in tits, Parus spp.

     Article • Behavioral Ecology, January 1990, Oxford University Press (OUP)

     Professor John Michael McNamara

165. 
     The Starvation-Predation Trade-Off And Some Behavioural and Ecological Consequences

     Article • January 1990, Springer Science + Business Media

     Professor John Michael McNamara

166. 
     Policy Improvement and the Newton–Raphson Algorithm for Renewal Reward Processes

     Article • Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, July 1989, Cambridge University Press

     Professor John Michael McNamara

167. 
     The value of food: effects of open and closed economies

     Article • Animal Behaviour, April 1989, Elsevier

     Professor John Michael McNamara

168. 
     State-dependent contests for food

     Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, April 1989, Elsevier

     Professor John Michael McNamara

169. 
     In delay there lies no plenty

     Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, December 1988, Cambridge University Press

     Professor John Michael McNamara

170. 
     Dynamic models in behavioural and evolutionary ecology

     Article • Nature, March 1988, Nature

     Professor John Michael McNamara

171. 
     There's no such thing as a free lunch

     Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, March 1988, Cambridge University Press

     Professor John Michael McNamara

172. 
     A framework for the functional analysis of behaviour

     Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, March 1988, Cambridge University Press

     Professor John Michael McNamara

173. 
     The ideal free distribution when competitive abilities differ: an approach based on statistical mechanics

     Article • Animal Behaviour, February 1988, Elsevier

     Professor John Michael McNamara

174. 
     Fighting for food: a dynamic version of the Hawk-Dove game

     Article • Evolutionary Ecology, January 1988, Springer Science + Business Media

     Professor John Michael McNamara

175. 
     A Stochastic Differential Game with Safe and Risky Choices

     Article • Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, January 1988, Cambridge University Press

     Professor John Michael McNamara

176. 
     Singing to attract a mate: a stochastic dynamic game

     Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, November 1987, Elsevier

     Professor John Michael McNamara

177. 
     Starvation and Predation as Factors Limiting Population Size

     Article • Ecology, October 1987, Wiley

     Professor John Michael McNamara

178. 
     Partial preferences and foraging

     Article • Animal Behaviour, August 1987, Elsevier

     Professor John Michael McNamara

179. 
     The maximization of overall reinforcement rate on concurrent chains

     Article • Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, July 1987, Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

     Professor John Michael McNamara

180. 
     Memory and the efficient use of information

     Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, April 1987, Elsevier

     Professor John Michael McNamara

181. 
     Switching between resources and the ideal free distribution

     Article • Animal Behaviour, February 1987, Elsevier

     Professor John Michael McNamara

182. 
     A general framework for understanding the effects of variability and interruptions on foraging behaviour

     Article • Acta Biotheoretica, January 1987, Springer Science + Business Media

     Professor John Michael McNamara

183. 
     Relative allocation on concurrent schedules can depend on schedule parameters when behavioral parameters are constant

     Article • Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, January 1987, Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

     Professor John Michael McNamara

184. 
     The Influence of Mortality on the Behaviour That Maximizes Reproductive Success in a Patchy Environment

     Article • Oikos, November 1986, JSTOR

     Professor John Michael McNamara

185. 
     The Common Currency for Behavioral Decisions

     Article • The American Naturalist, March 1986, University of Chicago Press

     Professor John Michael McNamara

186. 
     A general theory of central place foraging for single-prey loaders

     Article • Theoretical Population Biology, December 1985, Elsevier

     Professor John Michael McNamara

187. 
     Optimal foraging and learning

     Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, November 1985, Elsevier

     Professor John Michael McNamara

188. 
     A regularity condition on the transition probability measure of a diffusion process

     Article • Stochastics, October 1985, Taylor & Francis

     Professor John Michael McNamara

189. 
     An Optimal Sequential Policy for Controlling a Markov Renewal Process

     Article • Journal of Applied Probability, June 1985, Cambridge University Press

     Professor John Michael McNamara

190. 
     A simple model of information use in the exploitation of patchily distributed food

     Article • Animal Behaviour, May 1985, Elsevier

     Professor John Michael McNamara

191. 
     The variability of behaviour and constrained optimization

     Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, January 1985, Elsevier

     Professor John Michael McNamara

192. 
     Imperfectly optimal animals

     Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, June 1984, Springer Science + Business Media

     Professor John Michael McNamara

193. 
     Testing the marginal value theorem

     Article • Behavioural Processes, April 1984, Elsevier

     Professor John Michael McNamara

194. 
     Control of a Diffusion by Switching between Two Drift-Diffusion Coefficient Pairs

     Article • SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, January 1984, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

     Professor John Michael McNamara

195. 
     Optimal Control of the Diffusion Coefficient of a Simple Diffusion Process

     Article • Mathematics of Operations Research, August 1983, INFORMS

     Professor John Michael McNamara

196. 
     A sequential approach to risk-taking

     Article • Animal Behaviour, November 1982, Elsevier

     Professor John Michael McNamara

197. 
     Optimal patch use in a stochastic environment

     Article • Theoretical Population Biology, April 1982, Elsevier

     Professor John Michael McNamara

198. 
     How to maximize reward rate on two variable-interval paradigms

     Article • Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, May 1981, Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

     Professor John Michael McNamara

199. 
     Optimal Stopping for a Markov Process: A New Characterisation of the Optimal Policy

     Article • Mathematics of Operations Research, November 1980, INFORMS

     Professor John Michael McNamara

200. 
     The application of statistical decision theory to animal behaviour

     Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, August 1980, Elsevier

     Professor John Michael McNamara

201. 
     Behaviour of Scalar Perturbations of a Reissner-Nordstrom Black Hole Inside the Event Horizon

     Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, December 1978, Royal Society Publishing

     Professor John Michael McNamara

202. 
     Instability of Black Hole Inner Horizons

     Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, January 1978, Royal Society Publishing

     Professor John Michael McNamara

203. 
     Understanding invasions in patchy habitats through metapopulation theory

     Article • Springer Science + Business Media

     Professor John Michael McNamara

204. 
     Do we expect natural selection to produce rational behaviour?

     Article • Cambridge University Press

     Professor John Michael McNamara

205. 
     VII.3. Game Theory and Behavior

     Article • De Gruyter

     Professor John Michael McNamara

206. 
     Evolutionary game theory

     Article • Cambridge University Press

     Professor John Michael McNamara

207. 
     Communication as information use: insights from statistical decision theory

     Article • Cambridge University Press

     Professor John Michael McNamara