Adaptive developmental plasticity: What is it, how can we recognize it and when can it evolve?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1812, 2015, Pages

  Nettle, Daniel ^a   Bateson, Melissa ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive developmental plasticity; Evolution; Predictive adaptive response

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; FITNESS; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; HUMAN EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADAPTATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHENOTYPE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ENVIRONMENT; GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84937940249     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.1005     Document Type: Review

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