Extended Heredity (eBook)

A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution

Russell Bonduriansky, Troy Day (Autoren)

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2018
280 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-9015-6 (ISBN)

Infos

How genes are not the only basis of heredity-and what this means for evolution, human life, and diseaseFor 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.

Autor

Russell Bonduriansky is professor of evolutionary biology at the University of New South Wales in Australia. Troy Day is a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and the Department of Biology at Queen's University in Canada. His books include Biocalculus and A Biologist's Guide to Mathematical Modeling in Ecology and Evolution (Princeton).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.4.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 40 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Bioinformatik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
• Schlagworte: Adaptation • Allele • Bacteria • Base Pair • biologist • Biology • cell division • cell lineage • centriole • Charles Darwin • Chloroplast • Chromatin • chromosome • Classical genetics • Congenital Disorder • CRISPR • Cultural Evolution • Cytoplasm • Darwinism • dichotomy • Disease • DNA Methylation • Ecology • Embryo • environmental factor • epigenetics • epigenome • Ernst Mayr • Eugenics • eukaryote • Eva Jablonka • Evolution • evolutionary biology • female • Fertilisation • Fitness (biology) • Gamete • Gene • gene expression • genetic code • geneticist • genetic variation • Genotype • Germ Cell • germline • gonad • heredity • Heritability • Immortalised cell line • insect • James Gleick • Lactase persistence • lamarckism • Longevity • Mammal • mate choice • Maternal effect • mating • Mendelian Inheritance • methylation • Microorganism • mitochondrion • Modern evolutionary synthesis • Molecular Biology • Mutant • Mutation • mutation rate • Natural selection • Neanderthal • Nematode • Nucleic acid sequence • nutrient • Obesity • Organelle • organism • paramecium • Paramutation • Phenotype • Phenotypic trait • Physiology • Population Genetics • Prenatal Development • Prion • Protein • reproductive isolation • Reproductive success • RNA • Semen • sexual reproduction • Soft inheritance • Somatic cell • Speciation • Sperm • sweet tea • Thalidomide • Toxin • Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance • transposable element • Writing • Zygote
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-9015-2 / 1400890152
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-9015-6 / 9781400890156