A great challenge for ecology in the coming decades is to understand the role humans play
in eco-evolutionary dynamics. If, as emerging evidence shows, rapid evolutionary change …

Developmental plasticity refers to the property by which the same genotype produces
distinct phenotypes depending on the environmental conditions under which development …

Niche construction refers to the modification of selective environments by organisms.
Theoretical and empirical studies of niche construction are increasing in importance as foci …

Abstract Niche Construction Theory (NCT) provides a powerful conceptual framework for
understanding how and why humans and target species entered into domesticatory …

Financial and prosocial biases in favor of attractive adults have been documented in the
labor market, in social transactions in everyday life, and in studies involving experimental …

There is a tension between the conception of cognition as a central nervous system (CNS)
process and a view of cognition as extending towards the body or the contiguous …

As human activity and environmental change come to be increasingly recognized as
intertwined phenomena on a rapidly urbanizing planet, the field of urban ecology has risen …

Organisms modify and choose components of their local environments. This 'niche
construction'can alter ecological processes, modify natural selection and contribute to …

Anthropologists have a long history of applying concepts from evolutionary biology to
cultural evolution. Evolutionary biologists, however, have been slow to turn to anthropology …

In recent decades, the phenomenon of niche construction (NC)(Odling-Smee 1988) has
been receiving a lot of attention in the evolutionary biology literature, with many arguments …