Epigenetic Inheritance and Evolution
The Lamarckian Dimension
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 4 November 1999
- ISBN 9780198540632
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages360 pages
- Size 234x155x19 mm
- Weight 519 g
- Language English
- Illustrations line figures, tables 0
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Short description:
This book discusses the evidence for and against the heritability of acquired characters. Since it presents original and probably controversial arguments about the importance of epigenetic inheritance, this work provides a basis for discussion, modelling, and experimental investigation of the role of environmentally induced variation in evolution. Of interest to a broad range of biologists and other scientists.
MoreLong description:
This book discusses the evidence for and against the heritability of acquired characters. Does the inheritance of acquired characteristics play a significant role in evolution? In this original and potentially controversial book the authors explore an often neglected aspect of Darwinian evolution - the nature and origin of hereditary variations. The theory of evolution proposed by Jean-Baptise Lamarck (1744-1829), that characteristics developed during life by use and disuse can be inherited by offspring, lost support among Western scientists because it lacked definite proof. Jablonka and Lamb do not act as advocates or apologists for Lamarck, but they do challenge the prevailing assumption that all heritable variation is the random result of variation in DNA base sequence. Looking afresh at the evidence for and against the heritability of environmentally induced changes, the authors ask some timely questions about the importance of non-mendelian inheritance. This important work will be of great interest to all biologists and historians of science.
...a challenging and useful book, both because it provokes a careful scrutiny of one's own basic ideas regarding evolutionary theory, and because it cuts across so many biological disciplines.
Table of Contents:
Preface
The legacy of Lamarckism
Neodarwinian explanations of the inheritance of acquired characters
Induced genetic variations
Cellular heredity: epigenetic inheritance systems
Genomic imprinting: the inheritance of directed epigenetic variations
Interactions between genetic and epigenetic inheritance
The role of epigenetic inheritance systems in adaptive evolution
Heredity and the origin of species
Multiple inheritance systems
Glossary
References
Index
