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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Eva Jablonka; Marion J Lamb |
ISBN: | 0262101076 9780262101073 0262600692 9780262600699 |
OCLC Number: | 56347983 |
Notes: | "A Bradford book." |
Description: | x, 462 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | The transformation of Darwinism -- From genes to characters -- Genetic variation: blind, directed, interpretive? -- The epigenetic inheritance systems -- The behavioral inheritance systems -- The symbolic inheritance system -- Interacting dimensions, genes and epigenetic systems -- Genes and behavior, genes and language -- Lamarckism evolving: the evolution of the educated genes -- A last dialogue. |
Series Title: | Life and mind. |
Responsibility: | by Eva Jablonka and Marion J. Lamb with illustrations by Anna Zeligowski. |
Abstract:
"In Evolution in Four Dimensions Eva Jablonka and Marion Lamb argue that there is more to heredity than genes. They trace four "dimensions" in evolution - four inheritance systems that play a role in evolution: genetic, epigenetic (or non-DNA cellular transmission of traits), behavioral, and symbolic (transmission through language and other forms of symbolic communication). These systems, they argue, can all provide variations on which natural selection can act. Evolution in Four Dimensions offers a richer, more complex view of evolution than the gene-based, one-dimensional view held by many today. The new synthesis advanced by Jablonka and Lamb makes clear that induced and acquired changes also play a role in evolution."
"After discussing each of the four inheritance systems in detail, Jablonka and Lamb "put Humpty Dumpty together again" by showing how all of these systems interact."--Jacket.
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