Behaviour and Evolution
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Behaviour and Evolution

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eBook - ePub

Behaviour and Evolution

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This book was first published in 1979.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9780415402217
eBook ISBN
9781135658199
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
Developmental Psychology
Index
Psychology

Index

accommodation, 5-6, 36, 69, 94, 136-7; Baldwin's theory, xiv, 15, 16-18, 20-1
accommodats, 15, 17, 19, 83, 90
acquired traits, xii, xiv, 9, 14, 105
adaptation, xxi, 14, 16, 24, 26, 27, 110, 111; two types, xviii-xix, 24-5, 35, 143-5
adequation, xxi, 28, 84, 91, 131; ethological view, 25-6, 35, 36, 37, 39n.3
Alexander, R. D., 101
alligator, 83
Ammophila, 29, 114
Amoebae, 92-4
Anatinae, 97
angiosperms, 127-8
anticipatory processes, 86, 87, 91, 92-4, 129
arthropods, 128, 141
assimilation, 136-7; cognitive, 5-6, 57; genetic, xiv-xv, xxii, 36, 41-53, 69, 73, 150
Balanus, 111
Baldwin, J. M., xiv, xxivn.5, 5, 14-21, 36, 43, 69
Baldwin effect, xiv, 15, 20, 44, 150
behaviour: central mystery, 116; Darwin's view, 23; defined, ixx, 6; ethological view, 23-38; hereditary, xix-xx; intrinsic adaptation, 143-4; motor of evolution, 134ff.; of plants, 125-32; ultimate aim, xviii-xix; in Waddington's theory, 43-4; in Weiss's system, 55-66
Behavior and Evolution (ed. Rowe and Simpson), xi, 26, 28, 39n.7
Bernard, C., 10
Bertalanffy, Ludwig von, 11
Biology and Evolution, 34
Biology and Knowledge,...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Translator's Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. One The Merits and Drawbacks of the Lamarckian Thesis
  8. Two Baldwin and Organic Selection
  9. Three The Ethological View of Behaviour's Role in Evolution
  10. Four Cybernetic Interaction, 'Genetic Assimilation', and Behaviour
  11. Five Behaviour and Weiss's Hierarchy of Systems
  12. Six Phenocopy as Mediation between Environmental Influences and Behavioural Genic Factors
  13. Seven Psychobiological Speculations on the Problems of Instincts in Relation to the Problems of Evolution
  14. Eight Some Remarks on Plant Behaviour
  15. Nine General Conclusions: Behaviour, Motor of Evolution
  16. Index