RE: Vision and Evolution (A Critique of Dawkins)
August 14, 2019 at 2:18 pm
(This post was last modified: August 14, 2019 at 2:21 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
(August 14, 2019 at 2:08 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:(August 14, 2019 at 1:57 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: My question, broadly speaking, is if you agree with this definition? Behavior is not as quantifiable as other traits, such as color. Neither is cognition as observable as height, for example. I haven't been able to read Dawkins' book The Extended Phenotype, but it seems to be arguing in favor of including behavior and all its repercussions on the world as extensions of what would otherwise be limited by the term phenotype.
Is behaviour a part of an animals identifiable trait?
Yes it is, then it is part of its phenotype.
Behavior is not a part, but a product, of organisms.