Effects of learning on evolution: Robustness, innovation and speciation

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1023-1030

  Dukas, Reuven ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evolution; Innovation; Learning; Plasticity; Robustness; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ASSORTATIVE MATING; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTION; LEARNING; MATE CHOICE; NESTING; PLASTICITY; SITE SELECTION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84877593288     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.12.030     Document Type: Article

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