David W Stephens

Biographic Data

ID3915502
NAMEDavid W Stephens
GIVEN NAMESDavid W
FAMILY NAMEStephens
SIGNATURESTEPHENS D W
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Minnesota
ORCID0000-0003-3720-5248
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR4
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX0

  • Foraging Theory

    Open AccessDavid W Stephens, John Richard KrebsBOOKForaging Theory2019

  • Experimental Evolution and Economics

    Open AccessTerence C Burnham, Aimee Dunlap et al.ARTICLESAGE Open2015

    This is a theory paper that advocates experimental evolution as a novel approach to study economic preferences. Economics could benefit because preferences are exogenous, axiomatic, and contentious. Experimental evolution allows the empirical study of preferences by placing organisms in designed environments and studying their genotype and phenotype over multiple generations. We describe a number of empirical studies on different aspects of prefe…

  • Foraging

    David W StephensBOOKForaging2008

  • Foraging

    David W Stephens, Joel S Brown et al.BOOKForaging2007

    is fundamental to animal survival and reproduction, yet it is much more than a simple matter of finding food; it is a biological imperative. Animals must find and consume resources to succeed, and they make extraordinary efforts to do so. For instance, pythons rarely eat, but when they do, their meals are large - as much as 60 percent larger than their own bodies. The snake's digestive system is normally dormant, but during digestion metabolic ra…