Evolution in Four Dimensions
Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 576
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- Serienavn: Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and
- EAN: 9780262525848
- Utgivelsesår: 2014
- Bidragsyter: Jablonka, Eva (Professor, Tel Aviv University); Lamb, Marion J. (Collegium Budapest)
This new edition of the widely read Evolution in Four Dimensions has been revised to reflect the spate of new discoveries in biology since the book was first published in 2005, offering corrections, an updated bibliography, and a substantial new chapter. Eva Jablonka and Marion Lamb''s pioneering argument proposes that there is more to heredity than genes. They describe four “dimensions” in heredity—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.
Jablonka and Lamb present a richer, more complex view of evolution than that offered by the gene-based Modern Synthesis,
