The inheritance and heritability of Niche Construction Traits - Laurel Forgerty

2019

In this video, theoretician Laurel Fogarty explains how niche construction affects both heritability and evolutionary outcomes. The response of a trait to natural selection and its rate of evolution are strongly affected by the manner in which organisms alter selective environments, especially if they modify environments for descendants, creating an “ecological inheritance”.

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