The Extended Organism: The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures

By H. Downing, J. S. Turner. 2000

169 citations recorded by the source corpus.

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/f738735e5114ea51f7a71845c74d5ea73fc7153d

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Citations in the corpus

An emerging paradigm of colony health: microbial balance of the honey bee and hive (Apis mellifera) (2011, background): “In social insects, host–symbiont interaction must be considered in the context of the colony microenvironment, a complex and dynamic arrangement of biotic and abiotic interactions evolved to protect future generations and preserve and/or process nutrients (Turner, 2000, 2004; Hughes et al., 2008).”
Life Span Extension in Humans is Self-Reinforcing: A General Theory of Longevity (2001, unknown): “duction (Hill and Kaplan 1999; Turner 2000).”
More on how and why: cause and effect in biology revisited (2013, background): “For instance, earthworms change the structure and chemistry of the soils in which they live and thereby modify selection acting back on themselves, thereby influencing the fitness consequences of their water-balance organs (Turner 2000; Odling-Smee et al. 2003).”
Extended Phenotypes and Extended Organisms (2004, background): “The mound itself, and soils immediately surrounding the nest, contains an elaborately constructed network of tunnels which serve as conduits for flows of air (Turner 2000b).”
The automatic production of space (2002, methodology): “2 Seen in this way, software is a part of the extended organism of a new form of humanity, a kind of extended phenotype in which the environment we have made speaks back to us: 'organisms are integral with the world outside them' (Turner 2000, 6).”
Under niche construction: an operational bridge between ecology, evolution, and ecosystem science (2014, background): “Earthworms modify the structure of their soil environment 44 in a way that facilitates water uptake into their bodies, thereby partially solving a critical 45 physiological problem associated with living in terrestrial environments (Turner, 2002).”
Soft inheritance: challenging the modern synthesis (2008, background): “Transmitting ecological legacies through ecological niche construction is often part of soma-to-soma transmission (Odling-Smee et al., 2003; Turner, 2000): the ancestrally constructed environment provides the animal with a developmental resource, and through its activity it, in turn, bequeaths a…”
Termite Mound Architecture, from Function to Construction (2010, background): “Mound function of M. michaelseni has been extensively studied (Soar and Turner, personal communication), and ventilation is suggested to be mainly wind-driven ( Turner 2000b, 2001 ).”
Made By Each Other: Organisms and Their Environment (2005, background): “In some cases these changes are extreme: living in mounds influences every facet of termite morphology, physiology and behaviour (Turner 2000).”