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Animal Traditions maintains that the assumption that the selection of genes supplies both a sufficient explanation of the evolution and a true description of its course is, despite its almost universal acclaim, wrong. Eytan Avital and Eva Jablonka contend that evolutionary explanations must take into account the well-established fact that in mammals and birds, the transfer of learnt information is both ubiquitous and indispensable. The introduction of the behavioural inheritance system into the Darwinian explanatory scheme enables the authors to offer new interpretations for common behaviours such as maternal behaviours, behavioural conflicts within families, adoption and helping. This approach offers a richer view of heredity and evolution, integrates developmental and evolutionary processes, suggests new lines for research, and provides a constructive alternative to both the selfish gene and meme views of the world. It will make stimulating reading for all those interested in evolutionary biology, sociobiology, behavioural ecology and psychology.

Animal behavior. --- Behavior evolution. --- Behavior genetics. --- Behavior genetic analysis --- Behavioral genetics --- Human behavior genetics --- Psychogenetics --- Genetics --- Psychology --- Behavioral evolution --- Evolutionary psychology --- Animals --- Animals, Habits and behavior of --- Behavior, Animal --- Ethology --- Animal psychology --- Zoology --- Ethologists --- Psychology, Comparative --- Behavior

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In this volume scholars from diverse strands of research have contributed their perspectives on a process of mathematisation, which renders social, economical or political relationships increasingly formal. At the same time, mathematical skills lose their importance as they become replaced by diverse technological tools; a process of demathematisation takes place. The computerization of financial transactions, calculation of taxes and fees, comparison of prices as well as orientation by means of GPS, visualisation of complex data and electronic voting systems—all these mathematical technologies increasingly penetrate the lifestyle of consumers. What are the perils and promises of this development? Who is in charge, who is affected, who is excluded? A common concern of all the authors of this volume is an attempt to draw attention to issues related to the formatting power of mathematics and to its role as implicit knowledge, which results in a process of demathematisation. This process, having once received considerable attention, is now threatened to be eclipsed by the proliferation of a discussion of school mathematics, which shows a tendency of cutting off its own philosophical and political roots. Taken together, the contributions reveal a rather complex picture: They draw attention to the importance of clarifying epistemological, societal and ideological issues as a prerequisite for a discussion of curriculum.

Mathematics --- Study and teaching.

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Erbe-Umwelt-Problem. --- Verhaltensgenetik. --- Cytoplasmatische Vererbung --- Epigenese --- Inheritance of acquired characters --- Lamarck --- Lamarckismus --- Vererbung --- J. B. --- Jean Baptiste --- 1744-1829 --- Cytoplasmatische Vererbung. --- Epigenese. --- Inheritance of acquired characters. --- Lamarckismus. --- Vererbung. --- 1744-1829. --- J. B --- Evolution. Phylogeny --- Evolution (Biology). --- Evolution. --- Genetics. --- EVOLUTION --- LAMARCKISM --- ACQUIRED CHARACTERS --- GENETICS --- SPECIATION --- EPIGENETICS --- THEORY

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Evolution (Biology). --- Genetics. --- Inheritance of acquired characters.

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Animal evolution --- Animals--Evolution --- Animaux--Evolution --- Biological evolution --- Biologische evolutie --- Darwinism --- Darwinisme --- Dieren--Evolutie --- Evolutie (Biologie) --- Evolution (Biologie) --- Evolution (Biology) --- Evolution biologique --- Origin of species --- Evolution, Molecular. --- Genetic Phenomena. --- Molecular Biology. --- Evolution (Biology). --- Philosophy of science --- Evolution, Molecular --- Genetic Phenomena --- Molecular Biology