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Extended Heredity - A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution (Hardcover)
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Extended Heredity - A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution (Hardcover)
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How genes are not the only basis of heredity-and what this means
for evolution, human life, and disease For much of the twentieth
century it was assumed that genes alone mediate the transmission of
biological information across generations and provide the raw
material for natural selection. In Extended Heredity, leading
evolutionary biologists Russell Bonduriansky and Troy Day challenge
this premise. Drawing on the latest research, they demonstrate that
what happens during our lifetimes--and even our grandparents' and
great-grandparents' lifetimes-can influence the features of our
descendants. On the basis of these discoveries, Bonduriansky and
Day develop an extended concept of heredity that upends ideas about
how traits can and cannot be transmitted across generations. By
examining the history of the gene-centered view in modern biology
and reassessing fundamental tenets of evolutionary theory,
Bonduriansky and Day show that nongenetic inheritance-involving
epigenetic, environmental, behavioral, and cultural factors-could
play an important role in evolution. The discovery of nongenetic
inheritance therefore has major implications for key questions in
evolutionary biology, as well as human health. Extended Heredity
reappraises long-held ideas and opens the door to a new
understanding of inheritance and evolution.
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