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T ransformations of Lamarckism V ienna Series in Theoretical Biology G erd B. Mü l ler, Gü n ter P. Wagner, and Werner Callebaut, editors T he Evolution of Cognition, e dited by Cecilia Heyes and Ludwig Huber, 2000 O rigination of Organismal Form: Beyond the Gene in Development and Evolutionary Biology, e dited by Gerd B. Mü l ler and Stuart A. Newman, 2003 E nvironment, Development, and Evolution: Toward a Synthesis , edited by Brian K. Hall, Roy D. Pearson, and Gerd B. Mü l ler, 2004 E volution of Communication Systems: A Comparative Approach , edited by D. Kimbrough Oller and Ulrike Griebel, 2004 M odularity: Understanding the Development and Evolution of Natural Complex Systems, e dited by Werner Callebaut and Diego Rasskin-Gutman, 2005 C ompositional Evolution: The Impact of Sex, Symbiosis, and Modularity on the Gradualist Framework of Evolution, b y Richard A. Watson, 2006 B iological Emergences: Evolution by Natural Experiment, b y Robert G. B. 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Gissis, and Eva Jablonka, 2011 T ransformations of Lamarckism F rom Subtle Fluids to Molecular Biology e dited by Snait B. Gissis and Eva Jablonka w ith illustrations by Anna Zeligowski T he MIT Press C ambridge, Massachusetts L ondon, England © 2 011 M assachusetts Institute of Technology A ll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. F or information about special quantity discounts, please email C ontents S eries Foreword i x P reface x i A cknowledgments x v I NTRODUCTORY ESSAYS 1 1 L amarck, Darwin, and the Contemporary Debate about Levels of Selection 3 G abriel Motzkin 2 J ean-Baptiste Lamarck: F rom Myth to History 9 P ietro Corsi I H ISTORY 1 9 3 I ntroduction: Lamarckian Problematics in Historical Perspective 2 1 S nait B. Gissis 4 L amarck, Cuvier, and Darwin on Animal Behavior and Acquired Characters 3 3 R ichard W. Burkhardt, Jr. 5 T he Golden Age of Lamarckism, 1866– 1 926 4 5 S ander Gliboff 6 G erminal Selection: A Weismannian Solution to Lamarckian Problematics 5 7 C harlotte Weissman 7 T he Notions of Plasticity and Heredity among French Neo-Lamarckians (1880– 1 940): F rom Complementarity to Incompatibility 6 7 L aurent Loison vi Contents 8 L amarckism and Lysenkoism Revisited 7 7 N ils Roll-Hansen 9 L amarckism and the Constitution of Sociology 8 9 S nait B. Gissis I I T HE MODERN SYNTHESIS 1 01 1 0 I ntroduction: The Exclusion of Soft (“ L amarckian” ) Inheritance from the Modern Synthesis 1 03 S nait B. Gissis and Eva Jablonka 1 1 A ttitudes to Soft Inheritance in Great Britain, 1930s– 1 970s 1 09 M arion J. Lamb 1 2 T he Decline of Soft Inheritance 1 21 S cott Gilbert 1 3 W hy Did the Modern Synthesis Give Short Shrift to “ S oft Inheritance ” ? 1 27 A dam Wilkins 1 4 T he Modern Synthesis: D iscussion 1 33 I II B IOLOGY 1 43 1 5 I ntroduction: Lamarckian Problematics in Biology 1 45 E va Jablonka 1 6 L amarck’ s Dangerous Idea 1 57 S tuart A. Newman and Ramray Bhat 1 7 B ehavior, Stress, and Evolution in Light of the Novosibirsk Selection Experiments 1 71 A rkady L. Markel and Lyudmila N. Trut 1 8 T he Role of Cellular Plasticity in the Evolution of Regulatory Novelty 1 81 E rez Braun and Lior David 1 9 E volutionary Implications of Individual Plasticity 1 93 S onia E. Sultan 2 0 E pigenetic Variability in a Predator-Prey System 2 05 S ivan Pearl, Amos Oppenheim, and Nathalie Q. Balaban 21 Cellular Epigenetic Inheritance in the Twenty-First Century 2 15 E va Jablonka Contents vii 2 2 A n Evolutionary Role for RNA-Mediated Epigenetic Variation? 2 27 M inoo Rassoulzadegan 2 3 M aternal and Transgenerational Infl uences on Human Health 2 37 P eter D. Gluckman, Mark A. Hanson, and Tatjana Buklijas 2 4 P lants: I ndividuals or Epigenetic Cell Populations? 2 51 M arcello Buiatti 2 5 I nstantaneous Genetic and Epigenetic Alterations in the Wheat Genome Caused by Allopolyploidization 2 61 M oshe Feldman and Avraham A. Levy 2 6 L amarckian Leaps in the Microbial World 2 71 J an Sapp 2 7 S ymbionts as an Epigenetic Source of Heritable Variation 2 83 S cott F. Gilbert I V P HILOSOPHY 2 95 2 8 I ntroduction: Lamarckian Problematics in the Philosophy of Biology 2 97 S nait B. Gissis and Eva Jablonka 2 9 M ind the Gaps: W hy Are Niche Construction Models So Rarely Used? 3 07 A yelet Shavit and James Griesemer 3 0 O ur Plastic Nature 3 19 P aul Griffi ths 3 1 T he Relative Signifi cance of Epigenetic Inheritance in Evolution: S ome Philosophical Considerations 3 31 J ames Griesemer 3 2 T he Metastable Genome: A Lamarckian Organ in a Darwinian World? 3 45 E hud Lamm 3 3 S elf-Organization, Self-Assembly, and the Inherent Activity of Matter 3 57 E velyn F. Keller V R AMIFICATIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS 3 65 3 4 I ntroduction: R amifi cations and Future Directions 3 67 S nait B. Gissis and Eva Jablonka 3 5 L amarck on the Nervous System: P ast Insights and Future Perspectives 3 69 S imona Ginsburg viii Contents 3 6 L amarck’ s “ P ouvoir de la Nature” Demystifi ed: A Thermodynamic Foundation to Lamarck’ s Concept of Progressive Evolution 3 73 F rancis Dov Por 3 7 P rokaryotic Epigenetic Inheritance and Its Role in Evolutionary Genetics 3 77 L uisa Hirschbein 3 8 E volution as Progressing Complexity 3 81 R aphael Falk 3 9 E pigenetics and the “ N ew Biology” : E nlisting in the Assault on Reductionism 3 85 A lfred I. Tauber 4 0 E pigenetic Inheritance: W here Does the Field Stand Today? What Do We Still Need to Know? 3 89 A dam Wilkins 4 1 F inal Discussion 3 95 A ppendix A: Mandelstam’ s Poem “ L amarck” 4 11 A ppendix B: Mechanisms of Cell Heredity 4 13 G lossary 4 23 C ontributors 4 33 I ndex 4 37 S eries Foreword B iology is becoming the leading science in this century. As in all other sciences, progress in biology depends on interactions between empirical research, theory building, and modeling. However, whereas the techniques and methods of descrip- tive and experimental biology have evolved dramatically in recent years, generating a fl ood of highly detailed empirical data, the integration of these results into useful theoretical frameworks has lagged behind. Driven largely by pragmatic and techni- cal considerations, research in biology continues to be less guided by theory than seems indicated. By promoting the formulation and discussion of new theoretical concepts in the biosciences, this series is intended to help fi ll the gaps in our under- standing of some of the major open questions of biology, such as the origin and organization of organismal form, the relationship between development and evolu- tion, and the biological bases of cognition and mind. T heoretical biology has important roots in the experimental biology movement of early-twentieth-century Vienna. Paul Weiss and Ludwig von Bertalanffy were among the fi rst to use the term t heoretical biology in a modern scientifi c context. In their understanding the subject was not limited to mathematical formalization, as is often the case today, but extended to the conceptual problems and foundations of biology. It is this commitment to a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary integration of theoretical concepts that the present series intends to emphasize. Today, theoreti- cal biology has genetic, developmental, and evolutionary components, the central connective themes in modern biology, but also includes relevant aspects of compu- tational biology, semiotics, and cognition research and extends to the naturalistic philosophy of sciences. The “ Vienna Series ” grew out of theory-oriented workshops, organized by the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (KLI), an interna- tional center for advanced study closely associated with the University of Vienna. The KLI fosters research projects, workshops, archives, book projects, and the journal Biological Theory, all devoted to aspects of theoretical biology, with an

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