The Genetic Evolution of Flexible Strategies

Autor:	R. H. Crozier
Rok vydání:	1992
Předmět:	Cognitive science Empirical research Expression (architecture) Ecology Genetic model Natural (music) Biology Explanatory power Eusociality Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Genetic architecture Simple (philosophy)
Zdroj:	The American Naturalist. 139:218-223
ISSN:	1537-5323 0003-0147
DOI:	10.1086/285322
Popis:	West-Eberhard (1987a, 1987b, 1988) has suggested that (1) students of the evolution of insect eusociality fall into two groups, "geneticists" and "naturalists," and (2) the "naturalists" take account of environmental conditions mediating the expression of altruistic behavior whereas the "geneticists" do not. Her writings are also interpretable as arguing that (3) evolution may proceed epigenetically, without genetic innovation. All three statements are false: models about the evolution of insect eusociality explicitly include contextual statements and are often made by persons who also make thorough empirical studies of natural populations, and the evolution of responsiveness to particular cues eliciting worker behavior cannot be understood without genetic models for the evolution of the genetic architecture of the developmental systems involved. Although models may begin as simple intuitive statements, they have to be made quantitative to test their true explanatory power and to delimit their applicabili...
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