Individual Development and Evolution: The Genesis of Novel Behavior

by Gilbert Gottlieb

Book Overview

The concept of individual development has played two very different roles in the history of ideas concerning the evolution of species. In Darwin's time, individual development was believed to recapitulate the history of the species. This meant that each evolutionary novelty was added on at the end of individual development in the preceding species. If this were so, as Darwin and others believed, development would be like a motion picture revealing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195068939
• ISBN13: 9780195068931
• Release Date: November 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"