Niche construction: A pervasive force in evolution?
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Niche construction, biological evolution, and cultural change.
We propose a conceptual model that maps the causal pathways relating biological evolution to cultural change. It builds on conventional evolutionary theory by placing emphasis on the capacity of organisms to modify sources of natural selection in their environment (niche construction) and by broadening the evolutionary dynamic to incorporate ontogenetic and cultural processes. In this model, ph...
متن کاملNiche Construction and the Evolution of Complexity
An individual-based model of the process of niche construction is presented, whereby organisms disturb the environment experienced by their neighbours. This disturbance in local conditions creates a niche that potentially could be filled by another species (which would then create still more niches and so on). The model is unique in allowing the complexity of the organisms—measured by the numbe...
متن کاملEvolution and Niche Construction in NKES Fitness Landscape
Niche construction is known as the process whereby organisms, through their metabolism, their activities, and their choices, modify their own and / or each other’s niches. Our purpose is to clarify the interactions between evolution and niche construction by focusing on non-linear interactions between genetic and environmental factors shared by interacting species. We have constructed a new fit...
متن کاملRapid evolution of adaptive niche construction in experimental microbial populations.
Many species engage in adaptive niche construction: modification of the local environment that increases the modifying organism's competitive fitness. Adaptive niche construction provides an alternative pathway to higher fitness, shaping the environment rather than conforming to it. Yet, experimental evidence for the evolutionary emergence of adaptive niche construction is lacking, leaving its ...
متن کاملNiche Construction
University Press. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher, except for reading and browsing via the World Wide Web. Users are not permitted to mount this file on any network servers.
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0140-525X
DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x00422417