The expanded evolutionary synthesis-a response to Godfrey-Smith, Haig, and West-Eberhard

Biology and Philosophy

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 453-472

  Jablonka, Eva ^a   Lamb, Marion J ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cultural evolution; Epigenetic inheritance; Information; Inherited variation; Modern synthesis; Neo Darwinism; Waddington; Weismannism

Indexed keywords

CULTURE; EVOLUTION; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

KUHNIA;

EID: 33847752960     PISSN: 01693867     EISSN: 15728404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10539-007-9064-z     Document Type: Review

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