Soft inheritance: Challenging the modern synthesis

Genetics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 389-395

  Jablonka, Eva ^a   Lamb, Marion J ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epigenetic inheritance; Hereditary variation; Lamarckism; Macroevolution; Microevolution

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROL SYSTEM; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SOCIAL EVOLUTION;

LAMARCKIA;

EID: 46649114786     PISSN: 14154757     EISSN: 16784685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1415-47572008000300001     Document Type: Article

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