Gilbert Gottlieb

Individual Development and Evolution (eBook, ePUB)

The Genesis of Novel Behavior

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This work is intended to portray the interrelationship of heredity, individual development, and the evolution of species in a way that can be understood by nonspecialists. In striving to offer a straightforward historical exposition of the complex topic of nature and nurture, the author tells the story through a central cast of characters beginning with Lamarck in 1809 and ending with a synthesis of his own that depicts how extragenetic behavioral changes in individual development could be the first stages in the pathway leading to evolutionary change. On the way to that goal, he describes relevant conceptual aspects of genetics, embryological development, and evolutionary biology in a nontechnical and accurate way for students and colleagues in the behavioral and social sciences. The book presents a highly selected review as a prelude to the description of a developmental theory of the phenotype in which behavioral change leads eventually to evolutionary change.

This book grew out of an invited interdisciplinary course of lectures for advanced undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Presenting the various ways about thinking about heredity, individual development, and evolution, the author had three goals in mind:
*to establish the relevance of individual development to the evolution of species;
*to describe the most appropriate way to think about or conceptualize heredity in relation to individual development;
*to show that this somewhat unorthodox manner of conceptualizing heredity and individual development gives rise to a new way to think about the behavioral pathway leading to evolution.
In conclusion, the present work will provide a contribution toward the possible dissolution of the nature-nurture dichotomy, as well as a contribution to evolutionary theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135639327
• Artikelnr.: 38262768

Autorenporträt

Gilbert Gottlieb

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Conceptions of Development: Preformation and Epigenesis. Lamarck
and the Idea of the Evolution of Species. Charles Darwin on the Evolution
of Species and the Role of Embryological Development. Ernst Haeckel and the
Biogenetic Law. St. George Mivart: First Intimations of the Role of
Individual Development in Evolution. Francis Galton: Nature Verus Nurture,
or the Separation of Heredity and Environment. August Weismann, Wilhelm
Roux, Wilhelm His, and Hans Driesch: An Abortive Attempt to Understand
Heredity Through an Experimental Approach to Embryonic Development. Karl
Pearson Versus William Bateson: The Foundation of the Quantitative Study of
Heredity, or Genetics Without Individual Development. Walter Garstang,
Gavin de Beer, and Richard Goldschmidt: The Concept of Changes in
Individual Development as the Basis for Evolution. R.A. Fisher, J.B.S.
Haldane, and Sewall Wright: The Genetics of Populations. Evolution: The
Modern Synthesis and Its Failure to Incorporate Individual Development Into
Evolutionary Theory. Extending the Modern Synthesis: Preliminaries to a
Development Theory of the Phenotype (Phenogenesis). From Gene to Organism:
The Developing Individual as an Emergent, Interactional, Hierarchical
System. Induction of Behavioral Change in Individual Development as Prelude
to Evolution: The Supragenetic Developmental Basis of Evolutionary Change.