dc.contributor.advisor	Downey, Sean
dc.contributor.author	Gabb, Matthew
dc.contributor.department	Anthropology	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2015-02-16T17:40:12Z
dc.date.available	2015-02-16T17:40:12Z
dc.date.issued	2015-02-15
dc.description	Winner of the 2015 Library Award for Undergraduate Research.
dc.description.abstract	Ever since Charles Darwin’s revolutionary book "On the Origin of Species" was published in 1859, evolution via adaptation and natural selection has dominated the life sciences. Since the 1980s, a complement to genetic selection has been developed: Niche construction theory. Niche construction is the coevolutionary feedback loop in which organisms make modifications (ecosystem engineering) to their local environments (niches)—usually as a non-genetic adaptation—and in which these self-modified environments then exert an evolutionary pressure back onto the organism. This paper seeks to show that niche construction is not a product of natural selection, but rather an independent evolutionary process in its own right, challenging the idea that humans cannot affect their own evolution.	en_US
dc.identifier	https://doi.org/10.13016/M2702K
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1903/16306
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAt	Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
dc.relation.isAvailableAt	University of Maryland (College Park, Md)
dc.subject	anthropology	en_US
dc.subject	evolution	en_US
dc.subject	niche construction	en_US
dc.subject	natural selection	en_US
dc.subject	malaria	en_US
dc.subject	lactose tolerance	en_US
dc.title	Mosquitoes in the Field: Malaria, Farmers and Culturally-Induced Evolution	en_US
dc.type	Research paper	en_US

Mosquitoes in the Field: Malaria, Farmers and Culturally-Induced Evolution

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