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What is Behaviour And Evolution about?

xxiv, 158 pages ; 23 cm Includes bibliographical references and index The merits and drawbacks of the lamarckian thesis -- Baldwin and organic selection -- The ethological view of behaviour's role in evolution -- Cybernetic interaction, 'genetic assimilation', and behaviour -- Behaviour and weiss's hierarchy of systems -- Phenocopy as mediation between environmental influences and behavioural genic factors -- Psychobiological speculations on the problem of instincts in relation to the problems of evolution -- Some remarks on plant behaviour -- General conclusions: behaviour, motor of evolution

Author

Jean Piaget, Donald Nicholson-Smith

Publisher

London : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979.

Published

1978

Language

EN

ISBN

9780710000279

Subjects

Psychology, Science, Biology

Updated

2026-03-24