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. 2022 Oct 28;13:6419. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-34113-y

Fig. 4. Earlier-in-life individuality predict later-in-life individuality.

Fig. 4

A Individual behavior was significantly positively correlated across all 10 weeks of observation. Each plot represents the among-individual correlation in behavior between two particular weeks in the ten-week experiment. The points in the plot represent the individual’s behavior for that week; throughout, individuals are colored according to their week 1 behavior where yellow represents greater swimming speeds and purple represents lower swimming speeds. The line on each plot is the estimated among-individual correlation between behavior in those two weeks; correlations were significant across all weeks. B Shown are the among-individual correlations between behavior in a given week and behavior 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 weeks later. The correlations with behavior 2–5 weeks later have significantly steeper slopes than the correlation with behavior 1 week later showing that the among-individual correlation in behavior becomes more predictive of later behavior, later in life. Notice that the y-axis starts above zero. Source Data are provided as a Source Data file.