Griffiths, Paul E (2001) Beyond the Baldwin Effect: James Mark Baldwin's 'social heredity', epigenetic inheritance and niche construction. [Preprint]

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I argue that too much attention has been paid to the Baldwin effect. George Gaylord Simpson was probably right when he said that the effect is theoretically possible and may have actually occurred but that this has no major implications for evolutionary theory. The Baldwin effect is not even central to Baldwin's own account of social heredity and biology-culture co-evolution, an account that in important respects resembles the modern ideas of epigenetic inheritance and niche-construction.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Griffiths, Paul E
Keywords:	baldwin effect genetic assimilation cultural evolution developmental psychlogy Lamarckian inheritance
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Biology > Developmental Biology Specific Sciences > Psychology > Evolutionary Psychology Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory Specific Sciences > Psychology Specific Sciences > Sociology
Depositing User:	Professor Paul Edmund Griffiths
Date Deposited:	17 Oct 2001
Last Modified:	13 Sep 2015 14:58
Item ID:	446
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Biology > Developmental Biology Specific Sciences > Psychology > Evolutionary Psychology Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory Specific Sciences > Psychology Specific Sciences > Sociology
Date:	October 2001
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/446

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• Griffiths, Paul E Beyond the Baldwin Effect: James Mark Baldwin's 'social heredity', epigenetic inheritance and niche construction. (deposited 17 Oct 2001) [Currently Displayed]
  • Green, Christopher D. Will the real James Mark Baldwin stand up?: A comment on Griffiths (2001). (deposited 03 Jul 2003)

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