Behaviour and evolution

Author(s)

• Piaget, Jean
• Nicholson-Smith, Donald

Bibliographic Information

Behaviour and evolution

Jean Piaget ; translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith

（Routledge library editions, . Piaget）

Routledge, 2006

Other Title

Le Comportement, moteur de l'évolution

Note

First published by Routledge & Kegan Paul in 1979

This translation originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, 1978

Translation of: 'Le comportement, moteur de l'évolution'. Paris : Gallimard, 1976

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book was first published in 1979.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 The Merits and Drawbacks of the Lamarckian Thesis
• Chapter 2 Baldwin and Organic Selection
• Chapter 3 The Ethological View of Behaviour's Role in Evolution
• Chapter 4 Cybernetic Interaction, 'Genetic Assimilation', and Behaviour
• Chapter 5 Behaviour and Weiss's Hierarchy of Systems
• Chapter 6 Phenocopy as Mediation between Environmental Influences and Behavioural Genic Factors
• Chapter 7 Psychobiological Speculations on the Problems of Instincts in Relation to the Problems of Evolution
• Chapter 8 Some Remarks on Plant Behaviour
• Chapter 9 General Conclusions: Behaviour, Motor of Evolution

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Details

• NCID: BA79933460
• ISBN:
  • 9780415402217
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: fre
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xxviii, 158 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QH371
  • DC18 : 575/.01
• Subject Headings:
  • PRECIS : Organisms. Evolution. Role of behaviour. Theories
  • LCSH : Evolution
  • LCSH : Animals, Habits and behavior of
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA62797390