Vision and Evolution (A Critique of Dawkins)

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The new thread will have to wait an extra week, unfortunately. However, a question worth discussing in the meantime is the relationship between behavior and phenotype. Should behavior be classified as part of an organism's phenotype or as something additional to it?

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The phenotype (from Greek phainein, meaning 'to show', and typos, meaning 'type') of an organism is the composite of the organism's observable characteristics or traits, including its morphology or physical form and structure; its developmental processes; its biochemical and physiological properties; its behavior, and the products of behavior

By definition behaviour is part of its phenotype.