Inheritance Systems and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
Published on 4. June 2020
978-1-108-60738-4 (ISBN)
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Current knowledge of the genetic, epigenetic, behavioural and symbolic systems of inheritance requires a revision and extension of the mid-twentieth-century, gene-based, 'Modern Synthesis' version of Darwinian evolutionary theory. We present the case for this by first outlining the history that led to the neo-Darwinian view of evolution. In the second section we describe and compare different types of inheritance, and in the third discuss the implications of a broad view of heredity for various aspects of evolutionary theory. We end with an examination of the philosophical and conceptual ramifications of evolutionary thinking that incorporates multiple inheritance systems.
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Eva Jablonka | Marion J. Lamb
Inheritance Systems and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
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06/2020
Cambridge University Press
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