Description
| Product ID: | 9781108716024 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology |
| Title: | Inheritance Systems and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis |
| Authors: | Author: Eva Jablonka, Marion J. Lamb |
| Page Count: | 75 |
| Subjects: | Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Evolution, Evolution |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Current knowledge of the genetic, epigenetic, behavioural and symbolic systems of inheritance challenges the gene-based, 'Modern Synthesis' version of Darwin's evolutionary theory. The implications of a broad view of heredity are discussed and its theoretical and philosophical ramifications are examined. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-06-04 |
