The extended evolutionary synthesis and the role of soft inheritance in evolution

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1740, 2012, Pages 2913-2921

  Dickins, Thomas E ^a,b   Rahman, Qazi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epigenetic inheritance; Extended evolutionary synthesis; Proximate and ultimate causation; Soft inheritance

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HERITABILITY; INCLUSIVE FITNESS; LIFE CYCLE;

EID: 84863092413     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.0273     Document Type: Article

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