Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-329) and index.
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Legacy of lamarckism -- Neo-darwinian explanations of the inheritance of acquired characters -- Induced genetic variations -- Cellular heredity: epigenetic inheritance systems -- Genomic imprinting -- Inheritance of directed epigenetic variations -- Interactions between genetic and epigenetic inheritance -- Role of epigenetic inheritance systems in adaptive evolution -- Heredity and the origin of species -- Multiple inheritance systems