Comments on: Book review – Extended Heredity: A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution

By: Book review – Living on Earth: Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural World | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:58:06 +0000

[…] relevant concept such as niche construction now only features briefly, and while he covers culture, other mechanisms by which the environment can influence heredity, such as epigenetics, are omitted from his […]

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By: Book review – Biocivilisations: A New Look at the Science of Life | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 31 May 2024 11:43:33 +0000

[…] versus a few heroes at the fringe. As if there is no thriving gradient of ideas, no talk of extended heredity, no talk of evolution evolving, and no popular works on epigenetics. As if two of his intellectual […]

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By: Book review – The Drunken Monkey: Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 03 Apr 2020 19:15:40 +0000

[…] Tale of Jump-Started Evolution, and my review here), or the role of epigenetics (see my review of Extended Heredity: A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution). See also my review of Rates of Evolution: A Quantitative Synthesis. Then again, Nathan Lents […]

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By: Book review – The Drunken Monkey: Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 11 Mar 2019 09:34:10 +0000

[…] Tale of Jump-Started Evolution, and my review here), or the role of epigenetics (see my review of Extended Heredity: A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution). The forthcoming Rates of Evolution: A Quantitative Synthesis is looked forward to. Then again, […]

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inquisitivebiologist — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 10:48:20 +0000

Meanwhile, a lively discussion is unfolding over at the evolution subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/evolution/comments/ag6vaz/book_review_extended_heredity_a_new_understanding/

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By: Book review – She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 15 Jan 2019 09:31:48 +0000

[…] The concept of heredity becomes even fuzzier once we start adding the discovery of the microbiome (the community of microbes that lives in and on us, see these three books for more), epigenetics (heritable changes due to changes in gene activity rather than sequence, see these three books for more), or the notion that culture is a form of heritability to pass on knowledge (see these three books for more). You can see why Bonduriansky & Day are calling for a reappraisal of the concept of heredity in their recent book Extended Heredity: A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution. […]

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By: Book review – Lamarck’s Revenge: How Epigenetics Is Revolutionizing Our Understanding of Evolution’s Past and Present | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 15 Jan 2019 09:29:18 +0000

[…] of Darwin’s ideas that few evolutionary biologists still adhere to nowadays (see for example Extended Heredity: A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution). More importantly, this is macro-mutation, plain and simple. It is a wholesale change to a DNA […]

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