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Evolution ‘on purpose’: how behaviour has shaped the evolutionary process

2014-06-01

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The idea that behaviour has played an important role in evolution has had its ups and downs over the past two centuries. Now it appears to be up once again. Lamarck can claim priority for this insight, along with Darwin's more guarded view. However, there followed a long ‘dark‐age’, which began with Weismann's mutation theory and spanned the gene‐centred era that followed during most of the 20th Century, although...

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DOI: 10.1111/bij.12061

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