Précis of evolution in four dimensions

Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Jablonka, Eva ^a   Lamb, Marion J ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cultural evolution; Darwinism; Directed mutations; Epigenetic inheritance; Evolutionary psychology; Information transmission; Lamarckism; Language evolution; Memes; Social learning

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THEORY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EPIGENETICS; EVOLUTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INHERITANCE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; SOCIAL LEARNING; SYMBOLISM;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION, GENETIC; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 37349038179     PISSN: 0140525X     EISSN: 14691825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X07002221     Document Type: Article

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