Evolution аnd Lеаrning: Thе Bаldwin Effеct Rеconsidеrеd (Lifе аnd Mind: Philosophicаl Issuеs in Biology аnd Psychology)
Publisher: Thе MIT Prеss
Number of Pages: 351
Published: 2003-07-13
List price: $50.00
The role of genetic inheritance dominates current evolutionary theory. At the end of the nineteenth century, however, several evolutionary theorists independently speculated that learned behaviors could also affect the direction and rate of evolutionary change. This notion was called the Baldwin effect, after the psychologist James Mark Baldwin. In recent years, philosophers and theorists of a variety of ontological and epistemological backgrounds have begun to employ the Baldwin effect in their accounts of the evolutionary emergence of mind and of how mind, through behavior, might affect evol...