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Evolutionary biology

the proposal that learned or plastic responses can guide the direction of later genetic evolution by keeping populations alive in new conditions.

In evolutionary biology, Baldwin effect refers to the proposal that learned or plastic responses can guide the direction of later genetic evolution by keeping populations alive in new conditions. This meaning comes from Baldwin (1896) in The American Naturalist.[1]

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Baldwin, J. M. (1896). A New Factor in Evolution. The American Naturalist, 30(354), 441-451. https://doi.org/10.1086/276408

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