Inheritance Systems and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (Elements in the Philosophy of Biology) - Softcover

Jablonka, Eva; Lamb, Marion J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108716024 ISBN 13: 9781108716024

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2020

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108716024
• ISBN 13: 9781108716024
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96