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Title: Topics in Animal Behavior: Developmental Systems and Evolution
Description: An examination of Developmental Systems Theory, a conceptual framework that seeks to replace dichotomous accounts (nature-nurture, genes-environment, biology-culture) of organismal development. Major ideas for study include: 1) every trait is produced by the interaction of many developmental resources; 2) the significance of any one developmental resource is contingent upon the rest of the developing system; 3) an organism inherits a wide range of resources that interact to construct that organism's life cycle; and 4) evolution is not a matter of organisms being molded by environment, but of organism-environment systems changing over time.
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Professors: Asif A. Ghazanfar
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