In evolutionary biology, what is now called the Baldwin effect describes the ways agency, imitation and learned behaviour can pioneer evolutionary change. It was first christened as such in the 1950s by George Gaylord Simpson, one of the architects of the modern synthesis, to bring attention to a process highlighted in the previous century by James Mark Baldwin.
In evolutionary biology, what is now called the Baldwin effect describes the ways agency, imitation and learned behaviour can pioneer evolutionary change. It was first christened as such in the 1950s by George Gaylord Simpson, one of the architects of the modern synthesis, to bring attention to a process highlighted in the previous century by James Mark Baldwin.
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