Adoption, memes and the Oedipus complex: a reply to Hansen
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Adoption as a means of transferring behavioral traits is a valid theoretical concept in animal behavior research. Memes transmitted through parallel channels are not committed to any single method of social learning and transmission. Associating a meme with an extra transmission channel may increase its representation in the population. Positive assortative mating increases the frequency of a meme within the maternal lineage. The different means of phenotypical transmission explain their distribution in a population.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1996
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Does adoption make evolutionary sense?
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The theory that adoption makes evolutionary sense when the representation of a mother's phenotype in the next generation is raised by behavioral transmission is questionable . Controversy surrounds the ability of certain traits to aid in cultural transmission. A trait aiding transmission may also correlate genetically or phenotypiclly with the traits it helps transmit. The evolutionary sense of behavioral transmission is unclear, and a mechanism for the behavioral evolution of adoption is yet to be formulated.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1996
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Play fighting does not affect subsequent fighting success in wild meerkats
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Data from a wild population of meerkats, 'Suricata suricatta', a cooperatively breeding mongoose that shows marked reproductive skew, was used to examine whether play experience improved an individual's subsequent fighting ability. One of the results showed no sex difference in frequency of play fighting.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2005
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