Niche construction, human behavior, and the adaptive‐lag hypothesis

By Kevin N. Laland, Gillian R. Brown. 2006

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Subfields: Cultural Studies, Ecology, Sociology and Political Science

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The Broad Spectrum Revolution at 40: Resource diversity, intensification, and an alternative to optimal foraging explanations (2012, background): “Environmental manipulation by humans, even if it served to enhance productivity and reliability, clearly had long-term implications that may not have been so positive – for the environments that were manipulated or for the human manipulators themselves (Laland and Brown, 2006, p. 99).”
Evolutionary Ecology, Resource Depression, and Niche Construction Theory: Applications to Central California Hunter-Gatherers and Mimbres-Mogollon Agriculturalists (2010, background): “While the concept is strongly intuitive, and niche construction is more easily observed than natural selection, it has hidden complexities and significant implications for evolutionary dynamics (e.g., Day et al. 2003; Gray 1988; Laland et al. 1999; Laland and Brown 2006; Lewontin 1983; Odling-Smee e”
Inclusive heritability: combining genetic and non-genetic information to study animal behavior and culture (2010, unknown): “…leading to genotypeenvironment correlations and niche construction that can be transmitted over many generations (Arnold 1994, Wolf et al. 1998, Laland and Brown 2006, Johnson 2007) V TSoc Transmitted social variance The effect of social learning that results in the trangenerational…”
Adult temperament and childbearing over the life course (2010, background): “…in evolutionary psychology suggests that mating behaviour may still be guided by evolved psychological mechanisms (Gangestad & Simpson, 2000; see also Laland & Brown, 2006), implying that contemporary populations may provide evidence with which to evaluate evolutionary theories of personality.”
Under niche construction: an operational bridge between ecology, evolution, and ecosystem science (2014, background): “Niche construction has been defined with a deliberately broad scope (Laland and Sterelny 2006), and this has offered ecologists new insights about how modifications to the environment by organisms might persist over time (e.g., ecological inheritance), result from byproducts and acquired characters…”
More on how and why: cause and effect in biology revisited (2013, background): “…Henrich et al. 2010), its failure to recognize the diversity of human selective environments (Foley 1996), and because it treats humans as passive victims of selection (Laland and Brown 2006; Layton 2010; Bolhuis et al. 2011), assumptions that follow directly from the proximate-ultimate dichotomy.”
Ecological Inheritance and Cultural Inheritance: What Are They and How Do They Differ? (2011, background): “…(2012, this issue), when they engage in niche construction, humans potentially modify two kinds of selective processes (Laland et al. 2000, 2001; Laland and Brown 2006; Kendal 2012, this issue)—natural selection and what is often referred to as ‘‘cultural selection’’ (Cavalli-Sforza and…”
Niche Construction Theory and Archaeology (2010, background): “…(e.g., Fragaszy and Visalberghi 2001; Fragaszy and Perry 2003; Flack et al. 2006; Iriki and Sakura 2008), psychology (e.g., Mameli 2001; Mesoudi 2008), evolutionary anthropology (e.g., Laland and Brown 2006) and demography (e.g., Ihara and Feldman 2004; Kendal et al. 2005; Borenstein et al. 2006).”
A taxonomy of biological information (2010, background): “For example, organisms may modify their environment, resulting in niche construction, which may alter selective pressures (Laland et al. 2000, Laland and Brown 2006, Lehmann 2008).”
Modeling Human Ecodynamics and Biocultural Interactions in the Late Pleistocene of Western Eurasia (2011, background): “While several recent studies exemplify the value of taking a broader, interdisciplinary view of human evolution during the Late Pleistocene (e.g., d’Errico et al. 2003a; Finlayson and Carrión 2007; Laland and Brown 2006; Powell et al. 2009; Premo and Hublin 2009; Stiner and Kuhn 2006), there is litt”