Reposted by Gabrielle Welsh
🐟🚨 New paper! 🚨🐟
Where do behavioral differences come from? Early life environment clearly matters...
...or not?
Early environment affected behavior, but NOT how different individuals became from each other. Those differences were seeded before birth through factors OTHER than genetic variation 🤯
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Born This Way: Individuality Is Seeded Before Birth and Robust to Ecological Stress
We reared and recorded behaviours of clonal Amazon mollies in standardized environments, with and without predation stress, from birth through week four of life, to understand how the developmental e...
