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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. |
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"Another valuable perspective to the discussion... I found it refreshing to read a science book that is a conscious attempt at good literature." Nature "As this important book by Eva Jablonka and Marion J. Lamb shows, the twentieth-century 'neo-Darwins' told the evolutionary story in their own particular way, and some of the richnes of evolution that their forebear had described fell into neglect." The New Republic "There have been rumblings for some time to the effect that the neo-Darwinian synthesis of the early twentieth century is incomplete and due for a major revision... Evolution in Four Dimensions is the most recent addition to this genre, and contributes yet another valuable perspective to the discussion." Massimo Pigliucci Nature Read more...


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- Ethologie.
- Symboliek.
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