• DOI:10.1111/j.0014-3820.2006.tb00520.x
Corpus ID: 22997236

PERSPECTIVE: SEVEN REASONS (NOT) TO NEGLECT NICHE CONSTRUCTION

@article{Laland2006PERSPECTIVESR,
  title={PERSPECTIVE: SEVEN REASONS (NOT) TO NEGLECT NICHE CONSTRUCTION},
  author={K. Laland and K. Sterelny},
  journal={Evolution},
  year={2006},
  volume={60}
}

K. Laland, K. Sterelny

Published 2006

Biology, Medicine

Evolution

Abstract –The niche‐construction perspective within evolutionary biology places emphasis on the changes that organisms bring about in their selective environments. Advocates of this viewpoint argue that there is both accuracy and utility in treating niche construction as an evolutionary process in its own right, rather than merely as a product of evolution. Here we discuss and assess seven putative weaknesses of the niche‐construction perspective. Niche construction has been neglected or… CONTINUE READING

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