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Human niche construction in interdisciplinary focus.

Paper summary

Introduces human niche construction as reciprocal interaction between organismal activity and selection environments. It emphasizes ecological inheritance and culturally transmitted knowledge alongside genetic inheritance.

Relevance to the project

Relevant to environmental structures and associations as carriers of consequential history. Helps distinguish inheritance within an entity from inherited surroundings.

Niche constructionEcologyEvolutionary history

A conceptual introduction does not establish every claimed pathway experimentally.

Source record

Reference ID
doi-10-1098-rstb-2010-0306
Archived version
Publisher/repository PDF linked by Europe PMC; see source
Summary provenance
reference-library/papers/doi-10-1098-rstb-2010-0306/metadata.json · summary
Review status
initial orientation summary; not a critical full-paper review
Reading scope
Selected abstract/opening and available closing discussion/conclusion passages in the preserved text extract; broader project notes provide context. No reproduction of experiments, exhaustive methods review, or equation/figure audit.