Not in their genes: phenotypic flexibility, behavioural traditions and cultural evolution in wild bonnet macaques.

doi:10.1007/BF02705150

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Not in their genes: phenotypic flexibility, behavioural traditions and cultural evolution in wild bonnet macaques.

Journal of biosciences - 1 Feb 2005

Sinha Anindya

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Phenotypic flexibility, or the within-genotype, context-dependent, variation in behaviour expressed by single reproductively mature individuals during their lifetimes, often impart a selective advantage to organisms and profoundly influence their survival and reproduction. Another phenomenon apparently not under direct genetic control is behavioural inheritance whereby higher animals are able to acquire...

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Animals
Behavior, Animal
Biological Evolution
Genotype
Learning
Macaca radiata
Phenotype
Social Behavior

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PMID: 15824441
DOI: 10.1007/BF02705150

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