Developmental Plasticity and Evolution

West-Eberhard, M. J. (2003). Developmental Plasticity and Evolution. Oxford University Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

2003

Link

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/developmental-plasticity-and-evolution-9780195122350

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biology_ecology, cognitive_science, economics_finance

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4 citations across 4 artifacts.

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Primes

• Accommodation
  • Each exemplifies the same structural logic: recognize pressure, modify interior while defending boundaries, re-achieve fit, a cross-domain pattern West-Eberhard (2003) documents in her synthesis of developmental plasticity across biological systems.

    This sourceComprehensive synthesis of phenotypic/developmental plasticity across biological systems; treats developmental flexibility as identity-preserving adjustment to environmental regimes.

• Adaptation
  • … structure, behavior, or parameters in response to sustained environmental change in a way that preserves or improves its fit to the new conditions, a teleonomic process Mayr (1961) carefully distinguished from immediate physiological causation by separating proximate (how) from ultimate (why) explanations in biology.

    This sourceComprehensive synthesis of phenotypic plasticity with evolutionary theory; treats developmental flexibility as the source of the phenotypic variation on which selection acts, including within-lifetime structural modification across environmental regimes.

• Optionality
  • Developmental plasticity (West-Eberhard, 2003): an organism's capacity to adjust phenotype in response to environment, preserving pathways to different life-history strategies.

    This sourceFoundational synthesis of phenotypic plasticity in evolutionary biology; treats developmental flexibility as preserved organismal optionality across environmental regimes, including bet-hedging and life-history switching.

Domain-specific

• Genetic Assimilation
  • Genetic accommodation includes any selected heritable change in the regulation or form of a plastic phenotype; assimilation is the limiting direction in which the phenotype becomes substantially trigger-independent

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