TY - JOUR TI - Personality links with lifespan in chimpanzees AU - Altschul, Drew M AU - Hopkins, William D AU - Herrelko, Elizabeth S AU - Inoue-Murayama, Miho AU - Matsuzawa, Tetsuro AU - King, James E AU - Ross, Stephen R AU - Weiss, Alexander A2 - Baldwin, Ian T A2 - Thompson, Jessica C VL - 7 PY - 2018 DA - 2018/10/09 SP - e33781 C1 - eLife 2018;7:e33781 DO - 10.7554/eLife.33781 UR - https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.33781 AB - Life history strategies for optimizing individual fitness fall on a spectrum between maximizing reproductive efforts and maintaining physical health over time. Strategies across this spectrum are viable and different suites of personality traits evolved to support these strategies. Using data from 538 captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) we tested whether any of the dimensions of chimpanzee personality – agreeableness, conscientiousness, dominance, extraversion, neuroticism, and openness – were associated with longevity, an attribute of slow life history strategies that is especially important in primates given their relatively long lives. We found that higher agreeableness was related to longevity in males, with weaker evidence suggesting that higher openness is related to longer life in females. Our results link the literature on human and nonhuman primate survival and suggest that, for males, evolution has favored the protective effects of low aggression and high quality social bonds. KW - Pan troglodytes KW - chimpanzees KW - longevity KW - personality KW - life history KW - sex differences JF - eLife SN - 2050-084X PB - eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd ER -