Individual development and evolution : the genesis of novel behavior
By: Gottlieb, Gilbert
Material type: BookPublisher: New York : Psychology Press, 2014.Description: xii, 231p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 978-0415648486; 9780805840827Subject(s): Nature and nurture | Behavior evolution | Nature and nurture | Human behaviorDDC classification: 576 Online resources: Location MapItem type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 576 GO IN (Browse shelf) | Available | T0016761 |
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572.092 AB WI Wings of fire : | 572.8629 WA NE Next-generation sequencing data analysis / | 574 WA BI Biology, the science of life. | 576 GO IN Individual development and evolution : | 576.801 CO EQ The equations of life : | 577.1 EC OS Ecosystem services : | 577.144 HU CA Carbon sinks and climate change : |
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.
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