Evolution in Four Dimensions – Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life
Autor Eva Jablonka, Marion J. Lamb, Anna Zeligowski, Robert A. Wilson, Kim Sterelnyen Limba Engleză Paperback – mai 2014
This new edition of the widely read Evolution in Four Dimensions has been revised to reflect the spate of new discoveries in biology since the book was first published in 2005, offering corrections, an updated bibliography, and a substantial new chapter. Eva Jablonka and Marion Lamb's pioneering argument proposes that there is more to heredity than genes. They describe four "dimensions" in heredity -- 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.
Jablonka and Lamb present a richer, more complex view of evolution than that offered by the gene-based Modern Synthesis, arguing that induced and acquired changes also play a role. Their lucid and accessible text is accompanied by artist-physician Anna Zeligowski's lively drawings, which humorously and effectively illustrate the authors' points. Each chapter ends with a dialogue in which the authors refine their arguments against the vigorous skepticism of the fictional "I.M." (for Ipcha Mistabra -- Aramaic for "the opposite conjecture"). The extensive new chapter, presented engagingly as a dialogue with I.M., updates the information on each of the four dimensions -- with special attention to the epigenetic, where there has been an explosion of new research.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0262525844
Pagini: 520
Ilustrații: 73
Dimensiuni: 156 x 227 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.75 kg
Ediția:Revizuită
Editura: Mit Press