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Lala changed his name from Laland, stating on his lab website "Lala was my original family name, which my parents anglicized when I was 4, in an attempt to reduce the racism that their children experienced. I may have benefited from my surname being anglicized, but it did not sit right with me that I
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as an evolutionary process, Odling-Smee, Lala, and Marcus W. Feldman developed a theoretical framework – Niche
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Kendal, Jeremy; Tehrani, Jamshid J.; Odling-Smee, John (27 March 2011).
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Laland, K. N.; Odling-Smee, J.; Feldman, M. W. (2003).
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Niche Construction: The Neglected Process in Evolution
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Niche Construction: The Neglected Process in Evolution
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