Animal learning as a source of developmental bias. Issue 1 (26th August 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Animal learning as a source of developmental bias. Issue 1 (26th August 2019)
- Main Title:
- Animal learning as a source of developmental bias
- Authors:
- Laland, Kevin N.
Toyokawa, Wataru
Oudman, Thomas - Other Names:
- Moczek Armin P. guestEditor.
- Abstract:
- 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. HIGHLIGHTS: Learning is a major source of developmental bias in animals. HereAbstract: 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. HIGHLIGHTS: Learning is a major source of developmental bias in animals. Here we review the different types of developmental bias manifest in learning, and show how these influence evolutionary dynamics. … (more)
- Is Part Of:
- Evolution & development. Volume 22:Issue 1/2(2020)
- Journal:
- Evolution & development
- Issue:
- Volume 22:Issue 1/2(2020)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 22, Issue 1/2 (2020)
- Year:
- 2020
- Volume:
- 22
- Issue:
- 1/2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2020-0022-NaN-0000
- Page Start:
- 126
- Page End:
- 142
- Publication Date:
- 2019-08-26
- Subjects:
- developmental bias -- evolvability -- learning -- plasticity -- plasticity first
Evolution (Biology) -- Periodicals
Developmental biology -- Periodicals
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1111/ede.12311 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1520-541X
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