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Journal of Heredity Advance Access originally published online on May 19, 2006
Journal of Heredity 2006 97(3):307-310; doi:10.1093/jhered/esj036
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Book Review

Evolution in Four Dimensions

Evolution in Four Dimensions
Eva Jablonka and Marion J. Lamb.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005.

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The basic claim of Jablonka and Lamb is that "biological thinking about heredity and evolution is undergoing a revolutionary change. What is emerging is a new synthesis which challenges the gene-centered version of neo-Darwinism that has dominated biological thought for the last fifty years." They argue in the Prologue that

  • there is more to heredity than genes;
  • some hereditary variations are nonrandom in origin;
  • some acquired information is inherited; and
  • evolutionary change can result from instruction as well as selection.

The subtitle of the book is Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life; thus, the four dimensions of the title. "The challenge [this book] offers is not to Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection, but to the prevalent gene-based unidimensional version of it." The audience to which the book is directed is revealed in the Preface in the following sentence: "We hope that the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

William D. Stansfield

Biological Sciences Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA

e-mail: wstansfi@calpoly.edu


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