Inheritance Systems and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108716024)

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.

Author: Eva Jablonka, Marion J. Lamb
ISBN-10: 1108716024
ISBN-13: 9781108716024
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/04/2020
Pages: 75
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20d