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Ideas about heredity and evolution are undergoing a revolutionary change. New findings in molecular biology challenge the gene-centered version of Darwinian theory according to which adaptation occurs only through natural selection of chance DNA variations. In Evolution in Four Dimensions, Eva Jablonka and Marion Lamb argue that there is more to heredity than genes. They trace four'dimensions'in evolution -- 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. Evolution in Four Dimensions offers a richer, more complex view of evolution than the gene-based, one-dimensional view held by many today. The new synthesis advanced by Jablonka and Lamb makes clear that induced and acquired changes also play a role in evolution. After discussing each of the four inheritance systems in detail, Jablonka and Lamb'put Humpty Dumpty together again'by showing how all of these systems interact. They consider how each may have originated and gui

Who reads Evolution in Four Dimensions; Genetics, Epigenetic, Behavioral, & Symbolic Variation in the History of Life: 2005)?

Author

Eva Jablonka and Marion J. Lamb with illustrations by Anna Zeligowski

Publisher

A Bradford Book

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262101073

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Science, Philosophy, Biology

Updated

2026-03-24