HOW LEARNING AFFECTS EVOLUTION

Kevin Laland; Thomas Oudman; Wataru Toyokawa

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HOW LEARNING AFFECTS EVOLUTION

Kevin Laland, Thomas Oudman, Wataru Toyokawa

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Animal learning may play several important roles in evolution. Here we discuss how: (1) learning can provide an additional form of inheritance, (2) learning can instigate plasticity-first evolution, (3) learning can influence niche construction, and (4) learning can generate developmental bias. Evidence for these evolutionary effects of learning has accumulated rapidly over the last two decades, yet their significance for biological evolution remains poorly appreciated.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Evolution of learning and memory mechanisms
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Pages	265-282
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	9781108768450
ISBN (Print)	9781108487993
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108768450.018
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2022

Keywords

cultural inheritance
niche construction
plasticity-first evolution
social learning

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