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selection pressure
Also known as: selection pressures
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Psychedelics, Sociality, and Human Evolution frontiersin.org 3 facts
claimThe human socio-cognitive niche acts as both a selection pressure and an adaptive response, having been constructed and reshaped by hominins who modified the evolutionary pressures acting on themselves and their descendants.
referenceEcological inheritance involves passing inherited resources, conditions, and associated modified selection pressures to descendants, according to Laland et al. (2014, 2016).
referenceFeedback exists in evolutionary systems when organisms evolve in response to selection pressures modified by their ancestors, according to Odling-Smee et al. (2003).
Allostasis revisited: A perception, variation, and risk framework frontiersin.org Sep 28, 2022 2 facts
claimInter-individual variation may occur as a consequence of the different environments experienced by individuals or reflect phenotypic diversity in hereditary responsiveness arising through shifting selection pressures.
claimInter-individual variation can reflect phenotypic diversity in hereditary responsiveness caused by shifting selection pressures.
Evolutionary Psychology | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu 1 fact
claimSignificant evolutionary change can occur within 400 generations, which corresponds to the 10,000 years since the Pleistocene, provided that selection pressure and heritability are sufficiently high.
Compendium Vol. 5 No. 1: The ecological role of native plants bio4climate.org 1 fact
claimInvasive species exert selection pressure on the communities they enter, leading to rapid adaptation that is inherited by subsequent generations.