Sensitive periods, but not critical periods, evolve in a fluctuating environment: a model of incremental development.

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Sensitive periods, during which the impact of experience on phenotype is larger than in other periods, exist in all classes of organisms, yet little is known about their evolution. Recent mathematical modelling has explored the conditions in which natural selection favours sensitive periods. These models have assumed that the environment is stable across ontogeny or that organisms can develop phenotypes...

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• Biological Evolution
• Environment
• Phenotype
• Reproducibility of Results
• Selection, Genetic