- Title Pages
- Series Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
-
I History -
II The Modern Synthesis -
III Biology -
IV Philosophy -
V Ramifications and Future Directions -
34 Introduction: Ramifications and Future Directions -
35 Lamarck on the Nervous System: Past Insights and Future Perspectives -
36 Lamarck’s “Pouvoir de la Nature” Demystified: A Thermodynamic Foundation to Lamarck’s Concept of Progressive Evolution -
37 Prokaryotic Epigenetic Inheritance and Its Role in Evolutionary Genetics -
38 Evolution as Progressing Complexity -
39 Epigenetics and the “New Biology”: Enlisting in the Assault on Reductionism -
40 Epigenetic Inheritance: Where Does the Field Stand Today? What Do We Still Need to Know? -
41 Final Discussion -
Appendix A: Mandelstam’s Poem “Lamarck” -
Appendix B: Mechanisms of Cell Heredity - Further Reading
- Glossary
- Contributors
- Index
Evolution as Progressing Complexity
Evolution as Progressing Complexity
- Chapter:
- (p.381) 38 Evolution as Progressing Complexity
- Source:
- Transformations of Lamarckism
- Author(s):
Raphael Falk
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
This chapter suggests that Lamarck advanced the theory that the history of organic evolution is based on a progressive increase of complexity as the very consequence of the cumulative continuity of the process. This conception of complexity is based on the reorganizational basis of existing systems of individuals that are constrained within their environment.
Keywords: Lamarck, organic evolution, evolution, complexity, cumulative continuity
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- Title Pages
- Series Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
-
I History -
II The Modern Synthesis -
III Biology -
IV Philosophy -
V Ramifications and Future Directions -
34 Introduction: Ramifications and Future Directions -
35 Lamarck on the Nervous System: Past Insights and Future Perspectives -
36 Lamarck’s “Pouvoir de la Nature” Demystified: A Thermodynamic Foundation to Lamarck’s Concept of Progressive Evolution -
37 Prokaryotic Epigenetic Inheritance and Its Role in Evolutionary Genetics -
38 Evolution as Progressing Complexity -
39 Epigenetics and the “New Biology”: Enlisting in the Assault on Reductionism -
40 Epigenetic Inheritance: Where Does the Field Stand Today? What Do We Still Need to Know? -
41 Final Discussion -
Appendix A: Mandelstam’s Poem “Lamarck” -
Appendix B: Mechanisms of Cell Heredity - Further Reading
- Glossary
- Contributors
- Index