Does the inheritance of acquired characteristics play a significant role in evolution? In this
book, Eva Jablonka and Marion J. Lamb attempt to answer that question with an original …

Scientists are not always remembered for the ideas they cherished most. In the case of the
French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, his name since the end of the nineteenth century …

We discuss the changing use of epigenetics, a term coined by Conrad Waddington in the
1940s, and how the epigenetic approach to development differs from the genetic approach …

This is the first and only book, so far, to deal with the causal basis of evolution from an
epigenetic view. By revealing the epigenetic" user" of the" genetic toolkit", this book …

August Weismann rejected the inheritance of acquired characters on the grounds that
changes to the soma cannot produce the kind of changes to the germ-plasm that would …

Epigenetics increasingly occupies a pivotal position in our understanding of inheritance,
natural selection and, perhaps, even evolution. A survey of the PubMed database, however …

Many biologists are calling for an'extended evolutionary synthesis' that would'modernize the
modern synthesis' of evolution. Biological information is typically considered as being …

Since the Modern Synthesis, evolutionary biologists have assumed that the genetic system
is the sole provider of heritable variation, and that the generation of heritable variation is …

The term “epigenetics” was introduced in 1942 by embryologist Conrad Waddington, who,
relating it to the 17th century concept of “epigenesis”, defined it as the complex of …

The Modern Evolutionary Synthesis (MS) forged in the mid-twentieth century was built on a
notion of heredity that excluded soft inheritance, the inheritance of the effects of …