Evolution and Learning: The Baldwin Effect Reconsidered
(Part of the Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology Series)
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The role of genetic inheritance dominates current evolutionary theory. At the end of the nineteenth century, however, several evolutionary theorists independently speculated that learned behaviors could also affect the direction and rate of evolutionary change. This notion was called the Baldwin effect, after the psychologist James Mark Baldwin. Philosophers and theorists of a variety of ontological and epistemological backgrounds have begun to employ the Baldwin effect in their accounts of the evolutionary emergence of mind and of how mind, through behavior, might affect evolution.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0262232294
ISBN13:9780262232296
Release Date:January 2003
Publisher:MIT Press (MA)
Length:341 Pages
Weight:0.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"
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