Extended Phenotype – But Not Too Extended. A Reply to Laland, Turner and Jablonka

By Richard Dawkins. 2004

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Subfields: Genetics, History and Philosophy of Science, Molecular Biology

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Citations in the corpus

• The Concept of Organisms as Ecosystem Engineers Ten Years On: Progress, Limitations, and Challenges (2006, background): “One of the more controversial assertions of niche construction theory is that the incidental modifications to the environment created by organisms can constitute powerful evolutionary forces (Laland 2004, Turner 2004)—an idea referred to by Dawkins (2004) as “pernicious.””
• Feedbacks between geomorphology and biota controlling Earth surface processes and landforms: A review of foundation concepts and current understandings (2011, background): “, 2003) or niche changing (Dawkins, 2004) encompasses alterations of the geomorphologic dimensions of the habitat in ways that are not adaptive for the engineer species themselves but rather for other species within the ecosystem (OdlingSmee et al.”
• Minds: extended or scaffolded? (2010, background): “The precise relationship between extended phenotypes and constructed niches is contested, but at most a subset of niche construction cases fit Dawkins’s model (Dawkins 2004; Laland 2004).”
• Under niche construction: an operational bridge between ecology, evolution, and ecosystem science (2014, background): “Dawkins (2004) argues that the buildup of covariance between fitness and phenotype is much more likely to occur within a gene pool, consistent with the idea of an extended phenotype (Dawkins 1982), rather than across gene pools (Dawkins 2004).”
• Dynamic interactions of life and its landscape: feedbacks at the interface of geomorphology and ecology (2010, background): “In many cases, the modifi cation of landscapes by organisms would seem to be ‘accidental’, i.e. to offer little fi tness advantage to the organisms themselves (what Odling-Smee et al., (2003) called ‘negative niche construction’, or ‘niche changing’ sensu Dawkins (2004)).”