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At some point or points in the evolution of life on earth, some organisms became capable of learning. The capacity to learn diversified over time, leading to the emergence organisms with the ability to learn and pass on complex behaviours.
Evolutionary learning timeline
editIt is often assumed that fixed forms of behaviour are evolutionarily prior to learned behaviour, but this is open to debate[1].
The most basic form of learning, habituation, is observable in all animals,(ref?) and other organisms (ref). It can be estimated that organisms began to habituate to their environments (when?)
It has been argued that many evolutionary advances in learning, from habituation through to reading and writing, were dependent on previous forms of learning having evolved.[2] .
The most basic form of memetic learning can be observed in (what)(when).
Effect on genetic evolution
editWays in which the emergence of learning affected genetic evolution include the Baldwin effect
References
edit- ^ Tierney, Ann Jane. "The evolution of learned and innate behavior: Contributions from genetics and neurobiology to a theory of behavioral evolution" (PDF). The Psychonomic Society. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
- ^ Moore, Bruce. "The evolution of learning" (PDF). Cambridge Philosophical Society. Retrieved 3 August 2011.