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Inheritance Systems and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis

Inheritance Systems and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis

Paperback

Series: Elements in the Philosophy of Biology

History & Philosophy of Science

ISBN10: 1108716024
ISBN13: 9781108716024
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jun 4 2020
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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