Inheritance Systems and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
Author | : Eva Jablonka |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 87 |
Release | : 2020-06-04 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781108607384 |
ISBN-13 | : 1108607381 |
Rating | : 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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.