Read Chapman and Colleagues' (2007) Paper, "Early Interactions with Adults

Essay

Read Chapman and colleagues' (2007) paper, "Early Interactions with Adults Mediate the Development of Predator Defenses in Guppies" (Behavioral Ecology, vol. 19, pp. 87-93). How do the authors' results illuminate the powerful influence that early life social environments can have on the development of behavioral and morphological traits? Generate at least two hypotheses regarding the environmental conditions under which such developmental plasticity would be adaptive or maladaptive.