- Title Pages
- Series Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
-
I History -
II The Modern Synthesis -
III Biology -
15 Introduction: Lamarckian Problematics in Biology -
16 Lamarck’s Dangerous Idea -
17 Behavior, Stress, and Evolution in Light of the Novosibirsk Selection Experiments -
18 The Role of Cellular Plasticity in the Evolution of Regulatory Novelty -
19 Evolutionary Implications of Individual Plasticity -
20 Epigenetic Variability in a Predator-Prey System -
21 Cellular Epigenetic Inheritance in the Twenty-First Century -
22 An Evolutionary Role for RNA-Mediated Epigenetic Variation? -
23 Maternal and Transgenerational Influences on Human Health -
24 Plants: Individuals or Epigenetic Cell Populations? -
25 Instantaneous Genetic and Epigenetic Alterations in the Wheat Genome Caused by Allopolyploidization -
26 Lamarckian Leaps in the Microbial World -
27 Symbionts as an Epigenetic Source of Heritable Variation -
IV Philosophy -
V Ramifications and Future Directions -
Appendix A: Mandelstam’s Poem “Lamarck” -
Appendix B: Mechanisms of Cell Heredity - Further Reading
- Glossary
- Contributors
- Index
Lamarck’s Dangerous Idea
Lamarck’s Dangerous Idea
- Chapter:
- (p.157) 16 Lamarck’s Dangerous Idea
- Source:
- Transformations of Lamarckism
- Author(s):
Stuart A. Newman
Ramray Bhat
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
This chapter discusses the relationship of Lamarck's ideas to knowledge concerning generation of biological forms during development by physical and physicochemical processes pertaining to complex materials. It discusses the environment dependence of phenotypes, summarizes the key points of Darwinian natural selection, and compares inheritance of differentiation with inheritance of development.
Keywords: Lamarck, phenotypes, natural selection, inheritance, differentiation, development
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- Title Pages
- Series Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
-
I History -
II The Modern Synthesis -
III Biology -
15 Introduction: Lamarckian Problematics in Biology -
16 Lamarck’s Dangerous Idea -
17 Behavior, Stress, and Evolution in Light of the Novosibirsk Selection Experiments -
18 The Role of Cellular Plasticity in the Evolution of Regulatory Novelty -
19 Evolutionary Implications of Individual Plasticity -
20 Epigenetic Variability in a Predator-Prey System -
21 Cellular Epigenetic Inheritance in the Twenty-First Century -
22 An Evolutionary Role for RNA-Mediated Epigenetic Variation? -
23 Maternal and Transgenerational Influences on Human Health -
24 Plants: Individuals or Epigenetic Cell Populations? -
25 Instantaneous Genetic and Epigenetic Alterations in the Wheat Genome Caused by Allopolyploidization -
26 Lamarckian Leaps in the Microbial World -
27 Symbionts as an Epigenetic Source of Heritable Variation -
IV Philosophy -
V Ramifications and Future Directions -
Appendix A: Mandelstam’s Poem “Lamarck” -
Appendix B: Mechanisms of Cell Heredity - Further Reading
- Glossary
- Contributors
- Index
