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Niche Construction. How Life Contributes to its own Evolution

A symbiotic view of life: we have never been individuals

The birth of the holobiont: multi-species birthing through mutual scaffolding and niche construction

Viral niche construction alters hosts and ecosystems at multiple scales

Seeds of diversity

The ecological impact of animal nests and burrows

Niche construction in the light of niche theory

Diversity, dilemmas, and monopolies of niche construction

Niche construction initiates the evolution of mutualistic interactions

Niche construction theory: a practical guide for ecologists

Organism & environment: Ecological Development, Niche Construction, and Adaptation

Ecological and evolutionary consequences of niche construction for its agent

Under niche construction: an operational bridge between ecology, evolution and ecosystem science

Ecological consequences of human niche construction: examining long-term anthropogenic shaping of global species distributions

Adam’s Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans

Eco-evolutionary feedbacks in community and ecosystem ecology: interactions between the ecological theatre and the evolutionary play

Consequence of ecological, evolutionary and biogeochemical uncertainty for coral reef responses to climatic stress

Evolution of early homo: an integrated biological perspective

Cultural evolutionary theory: how culture evolves and why it matters

Origins of altruism diversity II: runaway coevolution of altruistic strategies via reciprocal niche construction

Human niche construction

Evolution of lactase persistence: an example of human niche construction

Developmental niche construction

How culture shaped the human genome: bringing genetics and the human sciences together

The niche construction of cultural complexity: interactions between innovations, population size and the environment

Niche construction and the behavioral context of plant and animal domestication

The broad spectrum revolution at 40: resource diversity, intensification, and an alternative to optimal foraging explanations

Controlled fire use in early humans might have triggered the evolutionary emergence of tuberculosis

EvoDevo and niche construction: building bridges

Evolution of antibiotic resistance by human and bacterial niche construction

The implications of niche construction and ecosystem engineering for conservation biology

Organisms as ecosystem engineers

Niche construction by growth forms is as strong a predictor of species diversity as environmental gradients

Evidence of developmental niche construction in dung beetles: effects on growth, scaling and reproductive success

Developmental and ecological benefits of the maternally transmitted microbiota in a dung beetle

Organism, Agency and Evolution

An ecosystem engineer, the beaver, increases species richness at the landscape scale

Genes, culture and agriculture: an example of human niche construction

Three kinds of niche construction

Rapid evolution of adaptive niche construction in experimental microbial populations

Niche Construction: The Neglected Process in Evolution

Niche construction affects the variability and strength of natural selection

Evolutionary consequences of niche construction and their implications for ecology

Macroevolution of ecosystem engineering, niche construction and diversity

The adaptive dynamics of niche constructing traits in spatially subdivided populations: Evolving posthumous extended phenotypes

Spatial effects favour the evolution of niche construction

Decoupling, commingling, and the evolutionary significance of experiential niche construction. In Evolutionary Causation: Biological and Philosophical Reflections

Understanding niche construction as an evolutionary process. In Evolutionary Causation: Biological and Philosophical Reflections

An enormous potential for niche construction through bacterial cross-feeding in a homogeneous environment

Cause and effect in biology revisited: is Mayr’s proximate-ultimate dichotomy still useful?

Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution

The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: what is the debate about, and what might success for the extenders look like?

The niche construction perspective: a critical appraisal

The Ontogeny of Information: Developmental Systems and Evolution

The dual landscape model of adaptation and niche construction

Niche construction and conceptual change in evolutionary biology

Niche construction, co-evolution and biodiversity

Ecology in an anthropogenic biosphere

Community level engineering effects of Triglochin maritima (seaside arrowgrass) in a salt marsh in northern New England, USA

Niche inheritance. In Evolution: The Extended Synthesis

Holobionts as units of selection and a model of their population dynamics and evolution

Developmental symbiosis facilitates the multiple origins of herbivory

Scale-invariant topology and bursty branching of evolutionary trees emerge from niche construction

Complexity in models of cultural niche construction with selection and homophily

The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional

Ecosystem engineering across environmental gradients: implications for conservation and management

Darwin’s Unfinished Symphony. How Culture Made the Human Mind

Core questions in domestication research

Coevolution: Genes, Culture and Human Diversity

The evolution of trans-generational altruism: kin selection meets niche construction

Heredity and evolutionary theory. In Challenging the Modern Synthesis: Adaptation, Development, and Inheritance

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