Evolution and learning : the Baldwin effect reconsidered / edited by Bruce H. Weber and David J. Depew.
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 eff...
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Table of Contents:
- Baldwin boosters, Baldwin skeptics
- Baldwin and his many effects / David J. Depew
- Baldwin effects and the expansion of the explanatory repertoire in evolutionary biology / Stephen M. Downes
- Between Baldwin skepticism and Baldwin boosterism / Peter Godfrey-Smith
- The Baldwin effect: a crane, not a skyhook / Daniel Dennett
- Multilevel selection in a complex adaptive system: the problem of language origins / Terrence W. Deacon
- Postscript on the Baldwin effect and niche construction / Peter Godfrey-Smith, Daniel Dennett, and Terrence W. Deacon
- Evolution, development, and the individual acquisition of traits: what we've learned since Baldwin / Celia L. Moore
- Baldwin and beyond: organic selection and genetic assimilation / Brian K. Hall
- On having a hammer / Susan Oyama
- Beyond the Baldwin effect: James Mark Baldwin's "Social Heredity," epigenetic inheritance, and niche construction / Paul E. Griffiths
- The Baldwin effect in the age of computation / Ruben R. Puentedura
- Role of predator-induced polyphenism in the evolution of cognition: a baldwinian speculation / Scott F. Gilbert
- Baldwin and biosemiotics: what intelligence is for / Jesper Hoffmeyer and Kalevi Kull
- The hierarchic logic of emergence: untangling the interdependence of evolution and self-organization / Terrence W. Deacon
- Emergence of mind and the Baldwin effect / Bruce H. Weber.