Our Plastic Nature

In Eva Jablonka & Snait Gissis, Transformations of Lamarckism: From Subtle Fluids to Molecular Biology. MIT Press. pp. 319--330 (2011)
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This chapter analyzes the notion of human nature and the concept of inner nature from the perspective of developmental systems theory. It explores the folkbiology of human nature and looks at three features associated with traits that are expressions of the inner nature that organisms inherit from their parents: fixity, typicality, teleology.

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