Discover Community Create You

Loading publication...

Noodle always counts identifier-free feature events for service operation. With your permission, Google Analytics can also estimate audience and engagement. Search text, publication identifiers, cookies, IP addresses and browser fingerprints are never included in Noodle's first-party event counters.

Privacy details

Article

Why Gupta et al.'s critique of niche construction theory is off target.

Journal of genetics - 1 Jul 2017

Feldman Marcus W, Odling-Smee John, Laland Kevin N

Abstract excerpt

Gupta et al., in their article in this issue ('Niche construction in evolutionary theory: the construction of an academic niche?'. doi:10.1007/s12041-017-0787-6), lament 'serious problems with the way science is being done' and suggest that 'niche construction theory exemplifies this state of affairs.' However, their aggressively confrontational but superficial critique of niche construction theory (NCT) only...

Read the complete abstract on PubMed

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

Share to Adaptation, Physiological
Share to Algorithms
Share to Biological Evolution

Methodology Data sources Editorial policy Privacy About Contact Helena Bioinformatics

Share to Ecosystem

Share to Environment

Share to Genotype

Share to Models, Theoretical

Share to Phenotype

Source

Identifiers

PMID: 28761013
DOI: 10.1007/s12041-017-0797-4

Provenance

PubMed metadata and Literature Corpus relationships. Corpus snapshot updated 5 Sept 2026. Manifest publication-graph-cohort-2026-09-05.1.

Source receipt: pubmed, retrieved 5 Sept 2026.

Related research

Semantic proximity does not establish scientific evidence.

Research trail→

Click a neighbor to travelStep 1 · 12 closest

Why Gupta et al.'s critique of niche construction theory is off target.PMID 28761013Read ↗

Evolutionary consequences of niche construction and their implications for ecology.Semantic proximity Read ↗

The long and winding road to understanding organismal construction: Reply to comments on "From genotypes to organisms: State-of-the-art and perspectives of a cornerstone in evolutionary dynamics".Semantic proximity Read ↗

Host manipulation by parasites through the lens of Niche Construction Theory.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Ecology. Making sense of evolution in an uncertain world.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Niche construction: evolutionary implications for parasites and hosts.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Niche construction: the case of industrial vinegar productionSemantic proximity Read ↗

Genetic variation in niche construction: implications for development and evolutionary genetics.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Niche construction on environmental gradients: the formation of fitness valley and stratified genotypic distributions.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Evolution of Plant Niche Construction Traits in Biogeomorphic Landscapes.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Assessing the prospects for a return of organisms in evolutionary biology.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Beyond nature-nurture.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Co-niche construction between hosts and symbionts: ideas and evidence.Semantic proximity Read ↗

⌁Select a neighboring publication to make it the new centre.