niche construction
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnicheandconstruction
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niche
noun[C]
uk/niːʃ/us/nɪtʃ/
a job or position that is very suitable for someone, especially one that ...
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construction
noun
uk/kənˈstrʌk.ʃən/us/kənˈstrʌk.ʃən/
the work of building or making something, especially buildings, ...
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Our theoretical analyses, which employed two-locus, population-genetic models, uncovered a number of interesting evolutionary consequences of the feedback fromnicheconstruction.
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However, that does not mean there has been no evolutionary feedback fromnicheconstruction: it merely switches the evolutionary responses to the cultural domain.
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In the following sections we argue that anicheconstructionperspective is particularly valuable in the study of human evolution.
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Even here, however, thenicheconstructionmodel so far promises more than it delivers.
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For humans, cultural information may be expressed innicheconstruction, but that does not make cultural evolution the same thing asnicheconstruction.
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Ifnicheconstructionis understood in this narrower way, a slight modification of their diagrams might be appropriate.
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Also, big brains would still remain adaptive even withoutnicheconstruction.
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Some defences ofnicheconstructionappear to implausibly interpret standard views as denying thatnicheconstructionhappens.
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Is cultural inheritance a species of the same phenomenon asnicheconstruction?
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The hypothesis that comes closest to a solution comes from gene-culture coevolutionary theory and places explicit emphasis on culturally inheritednicheconstruction.
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In biology, "nicheconstruction" is the process in which an organism alters its environment in order to increase its chance of survival.
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Counteractivenicheconstructionimplies only that a novel selection pressure is counteracted by the actions of an organism.
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This learning certainly opens up resources in the bird's environment that would be unavailable otherwise and is therefore an example ofnicheconstruction.
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One way to understandnicheconstructionis to say that selection can act on larger temporal units than the lifetimes of single organisms.
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Should we regard this as an example ofnicheconstruction?
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However, we have two reservations aboutnicheconstruction.
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This is just one possible consequence ofnicheconstruction, and it is not well described as thenicheconstructionhypothesis.
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Indeed, it would be difficult to imagine selection withoutnicheconstruction.
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Environments are partly determined by independent environmental events (for example, climatic, geological, or chemical events), but also partly by ancestralnicheconstruction.
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