Article
Behavioral pathway to evolutionary change.
Rivista di biologia - 1 Jan 1991
Gottlieb G
Abstract excerpt
The extreme malleability or plasticity of cells early in their development is mirrored to a certain, if lesser, degree in the psychological, behavioral, and neural functioning of developing organisms. The early developmental adaptability of organisms has significance for our understanding of evolution. It is the purpose of the present article to make a case for the extra-genetic or, better, the supra-genetic...
Topics
- Adaptation, Biological
- Animals
- Behavior
- Behavior, Animal
- Biological Evolution
- Environment
- Exploratory Behavior
- Genetics, Population
- Phenotype
- Rats