Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Merits and Drawbacks of the Lamarckian Thesis; Chapter 2 Baldwin and Organic Selection; Chapter 3 The Ethological View of Behaviour's Role in Evolution; Chapter 4 Cybernetic Interaction, 'Genetic Assimilation', and Behaviour; Chapter 5 Behaviour and Weiss's Hierarchy of Systems; Chapter 6 Phenocopy as Mediation between Environmental Influences and Behavioural Genic Factors; Chapter 7 Psychobiological Speculations on the Problems of Instincts in Relation to the Problems of Evolution; Chapter 8 Some Remarks on Plant Behaviour; Chapter 9 General Conclusions: Behaviour, Motor of Evolution;

About the Author

Jean Piaget, D.N. Smith