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Current knowledge of the genetic, epigenetic, behavioural and symbolic systems of inheritance requires a revision and extension of the mid-twentieth-century, gene-based, 'Modern Synthesis' version of Darwinian evolutionary theory. We present the case for this by first outlining the history that led to the neo-Darwinian view of evolution. In the second section we describe and compare different types of inheritance, and in the third discuss the implications of a broad view of heredity for various aspects of evolutionary theory. We end with an examination of the philosophical and conceptual ramifications of evolutionary thinking that incorporates multiple inheritance systems.
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Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
Contents
1 The Modern Synthesis: a Neo-Darwinian, Genotypic View of Heredity and Evolution
1.1 The Modern Synthesis
1.2 The MS Notion of Heredity
1.3 The MS as a Unifier of Biology
1.4 What the MS Excluded
1.5 Marginalized Ideas: Waddingtonโs DevelopmentalโEvolutionary Synthesis
1.6 Marginalized Empirical Data
1.7 The Epigenetic Turn
2 Characterizing Inheritance Systems
2.1 Classifying Inheritance Systems
2.2 The Genetic Inheritance System
2.3 Epigenetic Inheritance Systems
2.4 Soma-Mediated Transmission
2.5 Behavioural Inheritance through Social Learning
2.6 Symbol-Mediated Inheritance: the Symbolic
Inheritance System
2.7 Comparisons and Relations among Inheritance Systems
3 The Evolutionary Implications of Non-Genetic Inheritance
3.1 Arguments against the Importance of Epigenetic
Inheritance in Evolution
3.2 Adaptive Evolution Mediated by Epigenetic Inheritance
3.3 Interactions between Epigenetic and Genetic Inheritance,
and the Phenotype-First Perspective
3.4 Epigenetic Inheritance and Macroevolution
3.5 Epigenetic Inheritance and the Maintenance of Genome
Integrity
3.6 Epigenetic Inheritance Systems and the Evolution
of Ontogeny
3.7 The Evolutionary Effects of Social Learning
3.8 The Evolutionary Effects of Symbol-Based Learning
3.9 Integrating and Estimating the Effects of Inheritance
Systems
4 Philosophical Implications: Is an Extended Evolutionary Synthesis Necessary?
4.1 The Structure of Evolutionary Theory: Is Evolution
Darwinian?
4.2 Proximate and Ultimate Causation
4.3 An Extended Notion of Homology
4.4 Inheritance Systems, Identity and the Evolution
of New Levels of Individuality
4.5 The Meaning of Information in Inheritance and Evolution
4.6 Inheritance Systems and the EES
4.7 Does the EES Require a Change in Thought Style?
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