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Ontogeny in the family.
Behavior genetics - 1 Jan 2005
Kölliker Mathias
Abstract excerpt
When ontogeny takes place in a family, and parents provide essential resources for development, the parents become an environmental component to the development of a wide range of offspring traits. Because differences among parents may partly reflect genetic variation, this environmental component contains genes and may itself evolve. Also, when offspring play an active role in family interactions, offspring...
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