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SUBMITTER: Constant A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5938575 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface 20180401 141
In evolutionary biology, niche construction is sometimes described as a genuine evolutionary process whereby organisms, through their activities and regulatory mechanisms, modify their environment such as to steer their own evolutionary trajectory, and that of other species. There is ongoing debate, however, on the extent to which niche construction ought to be considered a bona fide evolutionary force, on a par with natural selection. Recent formulations of the variational free-energy principle ...[more]