Clues to the important roles both nature and nurture play in development is seen in infants as they begin to gain the ability to actively perceive the distance from themselves to objects in the environment. this ability is also known as what term?

iThe ability to actively perceive the distance from infants (themselves) to objects is known as cognitive development.

Cognitive development refers to how an infant perceives and thinks In contrast to the emphasis placed on a child's native abilities by intelligence testing.  It is the understanding of how children react to their environment, and relating old habits of nurturing or natural experiences that they already know, to new experiences.

small, big, or no change could occur in the phenotype. it could cause something as simple as a cats ears to curl backwards or something as frighting as death. it could also occur in the protien-coding area and have an effect on that but no effect on the amino acids. what has to occur is a changing in the hox gene or the control gene.