Extended Heredity

Author : Russell Bonduriansky,Troy Day
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691157672

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Extended Heredity by Russell Bonduriansky,Troy Day Pdf

How genes are not the only basis of heredity—and what this means for evolution, human life, and disease For much of the twentieth century it was assumed that genes alone mediate the transmission of biological information across generations and provide the raw material for natural selection. In Extended Heredity, leading evolutionary biologists Russell Bonduriansky and Troy Day challenge this premise. Drawing on the latest research, they demonstrate that what happens during our lifetimes--and even our grandparents' and great-grandparents' lifetimes—can influence the features of our descendants. On the basis of these discoveries, Bonduriansky and Day develop an extended concept of heredity that upends ideas about how traits can and cannot be transmitted across generations. By examining the history of the gene-centered view in modern biology and reassessing fundamental tenets of evolutionary theory, Bonduriansky and Day show that nongenetic inheritance—involving epigenetic, environmental, behavioral, and cultural factors—could play an important role in evolution. The discovery of nongenetic inheritance therefore has major implications for key questions in evolutionary biology, as well as human health. Extended Heredity reappraises long-held ideas and opens the door to a new understanding of inheritance and evolution.

Author : Russell Bonduriansky,Troy Day
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691204147

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Extended Heredity by Russell Bonduriansky,Troy Day Pdf

Bonduriansky and Day challenge the premise that genes alone mediate the transmission of biological information across generations and provide the raw material for natural selection. They explore the latest research showing that what happens during our lifetimes—and even our parents’ and grandparents’ lifetimes—can influence the features of our descendants. Based on this evidence, Bonduriansky and Day develop an extended concept of heredity that upends ideas about how traits can and cannot be transmitted across generations, opening the door to a new understanding of inheritance, evolution, and even human health. --Adapted from publisher description.

Author : Eva Jablonka,Marion J. Lamb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781108607384

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Inheritance Systems and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis by Eva Jablonka,Marion J. Lamb Pdf

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.

Author : Richard Dawkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999-03-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191024344

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The Extended Phenotype by Richard Dawkins Pdf

By the best selling author of The Selfish Gene 'This entertaining and thought-provoking book is an excellent illustration of why the study of evolution is in such an exciting ferment these days.' Science 'The Extended Phenotype is a sequel to The Selfish Gene . . . he writes so clearly it could be understood by anyone prepared to make the effort' John Maynard Smith, London Review of Books 'Dawkins is quite incapable of being boring this characteristically brilliant and stimulating book is original and provocative throughout, and immensely enjoyable.' G. A. Parker, Heredity 'The extended phenotype is certainly a big idea and it is pressed hard in dramatic language.' Sydney Brenner, Nature 'Richard Dawkins, our most radical Darwinian thinker, is also our best science writer.' Douglas Adams 'Dawkins is a superb communicator. His books are some of the best books ever written on science.' Megan Tressider, Guardian 'Dawkins is a genius of science popularization.' Mark Ridley, The Times

Author : Paul Griffiths,Karola Stotz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107002128

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Genetics and Philosophy by Paul Griffiths,Karola Stotz Pdf

This book integrates the work of philosophers of science seeking to make sense of genetics with an accessible introduction to the science.

Author : Danielle Sulikowski
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9782889199204

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Evolutionary Theory: Fringe or Central to Psychological Science by Danielle Sulikowski Pdf

The computational theory of mind, which views the brain as an information processor that operates on cognitive representations, is central to modern cognitive psychology and is the dominant perspective from which brain function is conceptualized and studied. Evolutionary Psychology (EP) is the application of evolutionary theory to understanding human behaviour and cognition. Unlike other core Psychology topic areas (such as Personality, Learning or Developmental Psychology), however, EP is not defined by the subset of psychological phenomena it seeks to describe and understand. It is instead defined by a specific meta-theoretical perspective, from which it seeks to (potentially) explain all psychological phenomena. The central question posed by this volume is whether this over-arching nature provides an opportunity for evolutionary approaches to offer an alternative meta-theoretical perspective to the information processing / representational view of brain function and behavior.

Author : Chris Abel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429683664

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The Self-Field by Chris Abel Pdf

In this incisive study of the biological and cultural origins of the human self, the author challenges readers to re-think ideas about the self and consciousness as being exclusive to humans. In their place, he expounds a metatheoretical approach to the self as a purposeful system of extended cognition common to animal life: the invisible medium maintaining mind, body and environment as an integrated ‘field of being’. Supported by recent research in evolutionary and developmental studies together with related discoveries in animal behaviour and the neurosciences, the author examines the factors that have shaped the evolution of the animal self across widely different species and times, through to the modern, technologically enmeshed human self; the differences between which, he contends, are relations of degree rather than absolute differences. We are, he concludes, instinctive and ‘fuzzy individuals’ clinging to fragile identities in an artificial and volatile world of humanity’s own making, but which we now struggle to control. This book, which restores the self to its fundamental place in identity formation, will be of great interest for students and academics in the fields of social, developmental and environmental psychology, together with readers from other disciplines in the humanities, especially philosophy, cultural theory and architecture.

Author : Richard Dawkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0192860925

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The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins Pdf

Science need not be dull and bogged down by jargon, as Richard Dawkins proves in this entertaining look at evolution. The themes he takes up are the concepts of altruistic and selfish behaviour; the genetical definition of selfish interest; the evolution of aggressive behaviour; kinshiptheory; sex ratio theory; reciprocal altruism; deceit; and the natural selection of sex differences. 'Should be read, can be read by almost anyone. It describes with great skill a new face of the theory of evolution.' W.D. Hamilton, Science

Author : Staffan Müller-Wille,Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226545721

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A Cultural History of Heredity by Staffan Müller-Wille,Hans-Jörg Rheinberger Pdf

“Thought-provoking…any scientist interested in genetics will find this an enlightening look at the history of this field.”—Quarterly Review of Biology It was only around 1800 that heredity began to enter debates among physicians, breeders, and naturalists. Soon thereafter, it evolved into one of the most fundamental concepts of biology. Here, Staffan Muller-Wille and Hans-Jorg Rheinberger offer a succinct cultural history of the scientific concept of heredity. They outline the dramatic changes the idea has undergone since the early modern period and describe the political and technological developments that brought about these changes. They begin with an account of premodern theories of generation, showing that these were concerned with the procreation of individuals rather than with hereditary transmission, and reveal that when hereditarian thinking first emerged, it did so in a variety of cultural domains, such as politics and law, medicine, natural history, breeding, and anthropology. The authors then track theories of heredity from the late nineteenth century—when leading biologists considered it in light of growing societal concerns with race and eugenics—through the rise of classical and molecular genetics in the twentieth century, to today, as researchers apply sophisticated information technologies to understand heredity. What we come to see from this exquisite history is why it took such a long time for heredity to become a prominent concept in the life sciences, and why it gained such overwhelming importance in those sciences and the broader culture over the last two centuries.

Author : Felissa R. Lashley
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-04-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 082612366X

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Clinical Genetics in Nursing Practice by Felissa R. Lashley Pdf

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Author : Leonard Doncaster
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Heredity
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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heredity in the light of recent research by Leonard Doncaster Pdf

Author : L. Doncaster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107401914

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Heredity by L. Doncaster Pdf

Offers a contemporaneous account of the most important advances in the study of heredity during the beginning of the twentieth century.

Author : Peter Godfrey-Smith
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191567780

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Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection by Peter Godfrey-Smith Pdf

In 1859 Darwin described a deceptively simple mechanism that he called "natural selection," a combination of variation, inheritance, and reproductive success. He argued that this mechanism was the key to explaining the most puzzling features of the natural world, and science and philosophy were changed forever as a result. The exact nature of the Darwinian process has been controversial ever since, however. Godfrey-Smith draws on new developments in biology, philosophy of science, and other fields to give a new analysis and extension of Darwin's idea. The central concept used is that of a "Darwinian population," a collection of things with the capacity to undergo change by natural selection. From this starting point, new analyses of the role of genes in evolution, the application of Darwinian ideas to cultural change, and "evolutionary transitions" that produce complex organisms and societies are developed. Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection will be essential reading for anyone interested in evolutionary theory

Author : Eva Jablonka,Marion J. Lamb
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262525848

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Evolution in Four Dimensions, revised edition by Eva Jablonka,Marion J. Lamb Pdf

A pioneering proposal for a pluralistic extension of evolutionary theory, now updated to reflect the most recent research. 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. Praise for the first edition “With courage and verve, and in a style accessible to general readers, Jablonka and Lamb lay out some of the exciting new pathways of Darwinian evolution that have been uncovered by contemporary research.” —Evelyn Fox Keller, MIT, author of Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines “In their beautifully written and impressively argued new book, Jablonka and Lamb show that the evidence from more than fifty years of molecular, behavioral and linguistic studies forces us to reevaluate our inherited understanding of evolution.” —Oren Harman, The New Republic “It is not only an enjoyable read, replete with ideas and facts of interest but it does the most valuable thing a book can do—it makes you think and reexamine your premises and long-held conclusions.” —Adam Wilkins, BioEssays

Author : David M. Bonner,Stanley E. Mills
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Genetics
ISBN : UOM:39015004339225

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Heredity by David M. Bonner,Stanley E. Mills Pdf

The material basis of heredity; DNA: the genetic material; Genes and biochemical reactions; Genes and enzymes; Genes in action; The molecular structure of a gene; Genes and development; Genetic mechanisms; Genes and mand; Heredity and hiroshima.