John Odling-Smee
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262513678
- eISBN:
- 9780262315142
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262513678.003.0008
- Subject:
- Biology, Evolutionary Biology / Genetics
This chapter illustrates the addition of niche construction to evolutionary theory, focusing primarily on the EvoDevo relationship. It elaborates the concept of niche inheritance to illustrate how ...
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This chapter illustrates the addition of niche construction to evolutionary theory, focusing primarily on the EvoDevo relationship. It elaborates the concept of niche inheritance to illustrate how the various candidate inheritance systems correspond to different components of niche inheritance and considers the principal subcomponents of niche inheritance. The chapter shows that the niche construction theory (NCT) links evolution to ecosystem-level ecology. It suggests that niche construction contributes to the “evo-devo” relationship by improving the contributions of prior evolution to the subsequent development of individual organisms, and by allowing plastic, niche-constructing developing organisms to influence the subsequent evolution of populations.Less
This chapter illustrates the addition of niche construction to evolutionary theory, focusing primarily on the EvoDevo relationship. It elaborates the concept of niche inheritance to illustrate how the various candidate inheritance systems correspond to different components of niche inheritance and considers the principal subcomponents of niche inheritance. The chapter shows that the niche construction theory (NCT) links evolution to ecosystem-level ecology. It suggests that niche construction contributes to the “evo-devo” relationship by improving the contributions of prior evolution to the subsequent development of individual organisms, and by allowing plastic, niche-constructing developing organisms to influence the subsequent evolution of populations.
