I read some textbooks today:
"Because behaviour can evolve, we expect to find that behavioural development has adaptive features. Some adaptive features include developmental switch mechanisms, which guide development into one of two or three alternative developmental pathways in response to specific environmental cues. Each of the resulting phenotypes can master the distinctive obstacles to success associated with its particular niche within the larger environment." (Alcock, John: "The Development of Behaviour," Animal Behaviour, 8th Ed. 2005)Supplementary Reading: "The Kind Die" by Alicia Silverstone.
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