Evolution and Learning: The Baldwin Effect Reconsidered

Book Overview

The role of genetic inheritance dominates current evolutionary theory. At the end of the nineteenth century, however, several evolutionary theorists independently speculated that learned behaviors could also affect the direction and rate of evolutionary change. This notion was called the Baldwin effect, after the psychologist James Mark Baldwin. Philosophers and theorists of a variety of ontological and epistemological backgrounds have begun to employ...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262232294
• ISBN13: 9780262232296
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 341 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"