Niche Construction

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By transforming biotic and abiotic sources of natural selection in external environments, niche construction generates feedback in evolution on a scale hitherto underestimated. It also plays a critical role in ecology, supporting ecosystem engineering and influencing the flow of energy and nutrients through ecosystems. This book extends evolutionary theory by formally including niche construction and ecological inheritance as evolutionary processes. The authors support their historic move with empirical data, theoretical population genetics, and conceptual models. They demonstrate how their theory can resolve long-standing problems in ecology, particularly by advancing the sorely needed synthesis of ecology and evolution.