Niche Construction¶
Odling-Smee, F. J., Laland, K. N., & Feldman, M. W. Niche Construction: The Neglected Process in Evolution.
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- In evolutionary biology, beavers building dams, earthworms modifying soil chemistry their descendants then evolve in, and oxygen-producing cyanobacteria remaking the atmosphere they then evolved within are canonical: the agent's action alters the selection pressures on subsequent generations.
This sourceMonographs in Population Biology 37. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. Foundational synthesis formalizing niche construction as an evolutionary process in which organisms modify their own and others' selection environments; develops the feedback model and the modified-fitness formalism.
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The publisher's description backs the general mechanism — niche construction alters selection pressures and descendants' evolution — but names none of the three exemplars called canonical.
“By transforming biotic and abiotic sources of natural selection in external environments, niche construction generates feedback in evolution on a scale hitherto underestimated—and in a manner that transforms the evolutionary dynamic.”
- In evolutionary biology, beavers building dams, earthworms modifying soil chemistry their descendants then evolve in, and oxygen-producing cyanobacteria remaking the atmosphere they then evolved within are canonical: the agent's action alters the selection pressures on subsequent generations.
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