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Ecological Inheritance

Ecological inheritance is the physical consequence of niche construction passed down through generations through ancestral organisms. This differs from genetic inheritance because it depends on each generation to sustain the efforts towards environmental modifications of previous generations.[1]

  1. ^ Odling-Smee, F. John (2003). Niche Construction. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-04437-6.