Sentence examples for behavioural evolution from inspiring English sources
Future models of these dynamics incorporating more realistic behaviours and behavioural evolution should prove insightful, while further discussions with decision-makers and applied ecologists (e.g. Schlaepfer et al. 2010) will contribute to our ability to influence these processes on the ground.
In this way, to qualify as another source for modelling hominid behavioural evolution, capuchins had to exhibit proficiency in the transport of tools.
Interest turned instead to testing population genetic and game theoretic models of behavioural evolution Lorenz responded to his critics with a new account of the innate/acquired distinction (Lorenz 1965; see also Browne 2005 (Other Internet Resources)).
The main focus of the paper is on aspects of post-100 ka archaeological material and how it can assist in the reconstruction of hypotheses and models regarding human cognitive and behavioural evolution.
More studies, however, are needed to look at how selection caused by other, inadvertent aspects of HIREC shapes behavioural evolution.
In the context of artificial selection and domestication, it is well known that human-induced changes in selection regimes can drive rapid behavioural evolution – e.g. rapid evolution of increased tameness, boldness or aggressiveness (Price 1984; Conrad et al. in press).
Frequently, to evolve new morphological or behavioural forms evolution has had to reuse and adapt existing elements by utilizing the inherited genomic sequences in a new context-dependent manner.
A wide array of studies in (behavioural) ecology and evolution would benefit from the ability to remove the linkage between the birds' choice of breeding location and a trait under study, and the ability to force some desired breeding environment for individuals, all while allowing free-ranging, natural breeding.
Finally, more models and empirical studies are needed to better understand how behavioural plasticity influences both evolution and how evolution might help species escape extinction.
From an adaptive perspective, limited plasticity is unexpected because heterogeneous environments should favour the evolution of behavioural plasticity rather than behavioural consistency [ 7, 8].
