Dos maneras de entender la adaptación y su significado en la ecología del comportamiento: Definiciones históricas y de utilidad actual
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ABSTRACT. TWO WAYS TO UNDERSTAND ADAPTATION AND WHAT IT MEANS TO BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY: HISTORICAL DEFINITIONS AND ITS CURRENT USES.
Behavioral Ecology (BE) emerged as a reformulation of the principles of Sociobiology, preserving its fundamental interest in revealing the adaptive character of behavior. However, BE focuses on how the behavior of organisms is adapted to the particular characteristics of the environment in which they live, instead of trying to reveal the supposedly universal character of adaptations. Thus, a concept of adaptation from where to evaluate such relationship is required. Delimiting the very notion of adaptation constitutes a problematic task insofar as the consideration of a trait as adaptation can be defended based on the need for natural selection to have operated in the past to preserve the trait, or based on positions that exclude such temporal criterion. This paper analyzes these two ways to understand such concept and the reasons why BE choose a non-historical approach.
KEY WORDS. Adaptation, behavioral ecology, non-historical definitions, current utility definitions, adaptationism.
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