Gottlieb, Gilbert, 1929-2006
Individual development and evolution : the genesis of novel behavior Gilbert Gottlieb - New York : Psychology Press, 2014. - xii, 231p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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.
978-0415648486 9780805840827
2001033186
Nature and nurture
Behavior evolution
Nature and nurture
Human behavior
576
Individual development and evolution : the genesis of novel behavior Gilbert Gottlieb - New York : Psychology Press, 2014. - xii, 231p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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.
978-0415648486 9780805840827
2001033186
Nature and nurture
Behavior evolution
Nature and nurture
Human behavior
576