Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introductory Essays -- 1 Lamarck, Darwin, and the Contemporary Debate about Levels of Selection -- 2 Jean-Baptiste Lamarck: From Myth to History -- I History -- 3 Introduction: Lamarckian Problematics in Historical Perspective -- 4 Lamarck, Cuvier, and Darwin on Animal Behavior and Acquired Characters -- 5 The Golden Age of Lamarckism, 1866-1926 -- 6 Germinal Selection -- 7 The Notions of Plasticity and Heredity among French Neo-Lamarckians (1880-1940) -- 8 Lamarckism and Lysenkoism Revisited -- 9 Lamarckism and the Constitution of Sociology -- II The Modern Synthesis -- 10 Introduction: The Exclusion of Soft ("Lamarckian") Inheritance from the Modern Synthesis -- 11 Attitudes to Soft Inheritance in Great Britain, 1930s-1970s -- 12 The Decline of Soft Inheritance -- 13 Why Did the Modern Synthesis Give Short Shrift to "Soft Inheritance"? -- 14 The Modern Synthesis: Discussion -- III Biology -- 15 Introduction: Lamarckian Problematics in Biology -- 16 Lamarck's Dangerous Idea -- 17 Behavior, Stress, and Evolution in Light of the Novosibirsk Selection Experiments -- 18 The Role of Cellular Plasticity in the Evolution of Regulatory Novelty -- 19 Evolutionary Implications of Individual Plasticity -- 20 Epigenetic Variability in a Predator-Prey System -- 21 Cellular Epigenetic Inheritance in the Twenty-First Century -- 22 An Evolutionary Role for RNA-Mediated Epigenetic Variation? -- 23 Maternal and Transgenerational Influences on Human Health -- 24 Plants: Individuals or Epigenetic Cell Populations? -- 25 Instantaneous Genetic and Epigenetic Alterations in the Wheat Genome Caused by Allopolyploidization -- 26 Lamarckian Leaps in the Microbial World -- 27 Symbionts as an Epigenetic Source of Heritable Variation -- IV Philosophy.

28 Introduction: Lamarckian Problematics in the Philosophy of Biology -- 29 Mind the Gaps -- 30 Our Plastic Nature -- 31 The Relative Significance of Epigenetic Inheritance in Evolution -- 32 The Metastable Genome -- 33 Self-Organization, Self-Assembly, and the Inherent Activity of Matter -- V Ramifications and Future Directions -- 34 Introduction: Ramifications and Future Directions -- 35 Lamarck on the Nervous System -- 36 Lamarck's "Pouvoir de la Nature" Demystified -- 37 Prokaryotic Epigenetic Inheritance and Its Role in Evolutionary Genetics -- 38 Evolution as Progressing Complexity -- 39 Epigenetics and the "New Biology" -- 40 Epigenetic Inheritance -- 41 Final Discussion -- Appendix A: Mandelstam's Poem "Lamarck" -- Appendix B: Mechanisms of Cell Heredity -- Glossary -- Contributors -- Index.