Question: Thanks for answering my question I hope your experiments go well to answer mine and your queries about different things affecting different animal. Could your experiment work on us as humans and how we adapt to diffrent environments and how quickly we could ?

Lewis Dean answered on 20 Mar 2014:

I would say that we already know quite a lot about how humans can adapt to different environments, but I hope that we can learn lots more in the future.

Many animals use the information that they learn (what we animal behaviour scientists often call ‘culture’) to adapt to new environments, rather than their genes changing very much. For humans culture is incredibly important and it is how we have been able to survive in so many different environments.

My experiments look at how, when and why animals learn, and it we often look at how other animals compare to humans. We can work out how humans learn and rely on our culture in new situations (and environments).