Book review Rui Diogo. 2017. Evolution Driven by Organismal Behavior: A Unifying View of Life, Function, Form, Mismatches and Trends. Springer. 252 pages.

摘要

Although most students of morphology and evolution would agree with the statement above, it represents a fundamental conundrum. As currently understood, explaining it requires a suite of concepts that is part of an expanded (or new) version of the neo-Darwinian synthesis of evolutionary biology (Laland et al. 2014; Wray et al. 2014). The phenotype has been typically seen by evolutionary biologists of the classical neo-Darwinian kind as genetically determined and invariant. It has now become accepted that the phenotype results within a reaction norm determined by a dynamical and reciprocal interaction between development and inheritance. This speaks against the notion of a ‘genetic programme' that determines the phenotype, including form. The notion of nongenetic inheritance is not a case of hopeless ‘lamarckism' but a reality. These ideas are at the core of Diogo's book.