Tracking changing environments: innovators are fast, but not flexible learners.

Behavioural innovations are increasingly thought to provide a rich source of phenotypic plasticity and evolutionary change. Innovation propensity shows substantial variation across avian taxa and provides an adaptive mechanism by which behaviour is flexibly adjusted to changing environmental conditi...

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Main Authors: Andrea S Griffin, David Guez, Françoise Lermite, Madeleine Patience
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3877343?pdf=render