Animal Traditions: Behavioural Inheritance in Evolution

by Eva Jablonka and Eytan Avital

Book Overview

Animal Traditions maintains that the assumption that the selection of genes supplies both a sufficient explanation of the evolution and a true description of its course is, despite its almost universal acclaim, wrong. Eytan Avital and Eva Jablonka contend that evolutionary explanations must take into account the well-established fact that in mammals and birds, the transfer of learnt information is both ubiquitous and indispensable. The introduction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521022118
• ISBN13: 9780521022118
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"