Open AccessNew thinking about biological evolution
Author(s) -
Bateson Patrick
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
biological journal of the linnean society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.906
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1095-8312
pISSN - 0024-4066
DOI - 10.1111/bij.12125
Subject(s) - biology , evolvability , inheritance (genetic algorithm) , evolutionary biology , evolutionary developmental biology , adaptability , biological evolution , modern evolutionary synthesis , organism , orthodoxy , environmental ethics , cognitive science , ecology , epistemology , genetics , history , psychology , philosophy , archaeology , gene
The article focuses on the active role of the organism in the subsequent evolution of its descendants. Choice, control of the environment, adaptability, and mobility all play their part. This growth area in biology and other active centres of research on epigenetics and different forms of inheritance are re‐invigorating evolutionary biology. Many evolutionary biologists have taken the view that an understanding of development is irrelevant to theories of evolution. However, the integration of several disciplines now suggests that the orthodoxy is misplaced. © 2013 The Linnean Society of London, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society , 2014, 112 , 268–275.