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This new edition of the widely read Evolution in Four Dimensions has been revised to reflect the spate of new discoveries in biology since the book was firstpublished in 2005 offering corrections an updated bibliography and a substantial new chapter EvaJablonka and Marion Lamb s pioneering argument proposes that there is more to heredity than genes They describe four dimensions in heredity four inheritance systems that play a rolein evolution genetic epigenetic or non DNA cellular transmission of traits behavioral andsymbolic transmission through language and other forms of symbolic communication These systems they argue can all provide variations on which natural selection can act Jablonka and Lamb present a richer more complex view of evolution than thatoffered by the gene based Modern Synthesis arguing that induced and acquired changes also play arole Their lucid and accessible text is accompanied by artist physician Anna Zeligowski s livelydrawings which humorously and effectively illustrate the authors points Each chapter ends with adialogue in which the authors refine their arguments against the vigorous skepticism of thefictional I M for Ipcha Mistabra Aramaic for the opposite conjecture The extensive new chapter presented engagingly as a dialogue with I M updates the information oneach of the four dimensions with special attention to the epigenetic where there has been anexplosion of new research Praise for the firstedition With courage and verve and in a style accessible togeneral readers Jablonka and Lamb lay out some of the exciting new pathways of Darwinian evolutionthat have been uncovered by contemporary research Evelyn Fox Keller MIT author of Making Sense of Life Explaining Biological Development with Models Metaphors andMachines In their beautifully written and impressively argued newbook Jablonka and Lamb show that the evidence from more than fifty years of molecular behavioraland linguis - from Amzon