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Animal learning as a source of developmental bias
Laland, K.N.; Toyokawa, W.; Oudman, T. (2020). Animal learning as a source of developmental bias. Evolution & Development 22(1-2): 126-142. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ede.12311
In: Evolution & Development. Wiley-Blackwell: Hoboken. ISSN 1520-541X; e-ISSN 1525-142X, meer
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Author keywords
    developmental bias; evolvability; learning; plasticity; plasticity first

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  • Laland, K.N.
  • Toyokawa, W.
  • Oudman, T., meer

Abstract
    • As a form of adaptive plasticity that allows organisms to shift their phenotype toward the optimum, learning is inherently a source of developmental bias. Learning may be of particular significance to the evolutionary biology community because it allows animals to generate adaptively biased novel behavior tuned to the environment and, through social learning, to propagate behavioral traits to other individuals, also in an adaptively biased manner. We describe several types of developmental bias manifest in learning, including an adaptive bias, historical bias, origination bias, and transmission bias, stressing that these can influence evolutionary dynamics through generating nonrandom phenotypic variation and/or nonrandom environmental states. Theoretical models and empirical data have established that learning can impose direction on adaptive evolution, affect evolutionary rates (both speeding up and slowing down responses to selection under different conditions) and outcomes, influence the probability of populations reaching global optimum, and affect evolvability. Learning is characterized by highly specific, path‐dependent interactions with the (social and physical) environment, often resulting in new phenotypic outcomes. Consequently, learning regularly introduces novelty into phenotype space. These considerations imply that learning may commonly generate plasticity first evolution.

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