books by Eva Jablonka (behavioural inheritance lamarckian)

books by Eva Jablonka

books:

Epigenetic Inheritance and Evolution: The Lamarckian Dimension
Eva Jablonka, Marion Lamb

Oxford University Press, USA, 1995

Does the inheritance of acquired characteristics play a significant role in evolution? In this book, Eva Jablonka and Marion J. Lamb attempt to answer that question with an original, provocative exploration of the nature and origin of hereditary variations. Starting with a historical account of Lamarck's ideas and the reasons they have fallen in disrepute, the authors go on to challenge the prevailing assumption that all heritable variation is ...

Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life ...

11 reviews
Eva Jablonka, Marion J. Lamb

The MIT Press, 2006

A wonderful eye-opener regarding epigentic inheritance
I was floored by this book. I've had to abandon (or rather enlarge) the gene-centered view of inheritance and evolution that I'd become comfortable with and embrace this new perspective. Nature is far more complex and subtle than the textbooks would indicate.

Animal Traditions: Behavioural Inheritance in Evolution

2 reviews
Eytan Avital, Eva Jablonka

Cambridge University Press, 2005

Great book on evolution of animal cultures
Ever since the "modern synthesis" other mechanisms in which information can be inherited beyond the gene have been overlooked, or simply under researched. This book is not an outright attack on the importance of the genetics in evolution but an expanded view of the phenotype, inheritance, and how organism can influence there selective environment (see niche constuction). Here Avital and Jablonka ...

Mathematisation and Demathematisation

Sense Publishers, 2008

Scholars from the diverse strands of research have contributed their perspectives on mathematisation, a process that renders social, economical or political relationships increasingly formal. At the same time, mathematical skills lose their importance because a diversity of technological tools replace them; a process of demathematisation takes place. The authors discuss the concomitant educational issues from social, political or philosophical ...