title: Nature and nurture: A step towards investigating their interactions in the wild.
abstract: The debate about the relative importance of nature versus nurture has been around for decades, but despite this, there has been very little evidence about how these might in fact interact to drive evolution in the wild. Recently, the identification of a comparable methodology for analyzing both genetic and social effects of phenotypic variation revealed that fitness variation in a free-living population of dolphin was driven by a strong social and genetic interaction. This study not only provides evidence that nature and nurture do interact to drive phenotypic evolution but also represents a step towards partitioning the effects of genetic, social, environmental factors and their multiway interactions to better understand phenotypic evolution in the wild.
authors.affiliation: School of Biological Earth and Ecological Sciences; University of New South Wales; Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: Celine H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Fríre
authors.forename: Janet
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mann
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Krützen
authors.forename: Richard C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Connor
authors.forename: Lars
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bejder
authors.forename: William B
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: Sherwin