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What the Baldwin Effect affects depends on the nature of plasticity.
Cognition - 1 Apr 2020
Morgan Thomas J H, Suchow Jordan W, Griffiths Thomas L
Abstract excerpt
In a process known as the Baldwin Effect, developmental plasticity, such as learning, has been argued to accelerate the biological evolution of high-fitness traits, including language and complex intelligence. Here we investigate the evolutionary consequences of developmental plasticity by asking which aspects of a plastic trait are the focus of genetic change. The aspects we consider are: (i) dependencies...
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