Journal article
Nature and nurture: A step towards investigating their interactions in the wild
Communicative and Integrative Biology, Vol.4(2), pp.192-193
2011
Abstract
The debate about the relative importance of nature versus nurture has been around for decades, but despite this, there has been very little evidence about how these might in fact interact to drive evolution in the wild. Recently, the identification of a comparable methodology for analyzing both genetic and social effects of phenotypic variation revealed that fitness variation in a freeliving population of dolphin was driven by a strong social and genetic interaction. This study not only provides evidence that nature and nurture do interact to drive phenotypic evolution but also represents a step towards partitioning the effects of genetic, social, environmental factors and their multiway interactions to better understand phenotypic evolution in the wild
Details
- Title
- Nature and nurture: A step towards investigating their interactions in the wild
- Authors
- Celine H Frere (Author) - University of New South WalesJ Mann (Author) - University of New South WalesM Krützen (Author) - University of New South WalesR C Connor (Author) - University of New South WalesL Bejder (Author) - Murdoch UniversityW B Sherwin (Author) - University of New South Wales
- Publication details
- Communicative and Integrative Biology, Vol.4(2), pp.192-193
- Publisher
- Landes Bioscience
- Date published
- 2011
- DOI
- 10.4161/cib.4.2.14297
- ISSN
- 1942-0889; 1942-0889
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2011 Landes Bioscience. This is an open-access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. The article may be redistributed, reproduced, and reused for non-commercial purposes, provided the original source is properly cited.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Science and Engineering - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Science, Technology and Engineering
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99448620002621
- Output Type
- Journal article
- Research Statement
- false
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