Memory flies sooner from flies that learn faster
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Memory flies sooner from flies that learn faster.
L earning, like any phenotypic trait, is expected to evolve under natural selection. A prerequisite for evolutionary change is heritable variation in learning in natural populations. It is customary in evolutionary biology to think of genetic variation in a complex trait such as learning ability in terms of a so-called ‘‘bell curve’’ or normal distribution (1) (Fig. 1). Most individuals are ave...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0706165104