THE BALDWIN EFFECT
THE BALDWIN EFFECT
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鲍德温效应
DOI:
10.1111/j.1558-5646.1953.tb00069.x
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发表时间:
1953
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影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
G. Simpson
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作者:
G. Simpson
Characters individually acquired by members of a group of organisms may eventually, under the influence of selection, be reenforced or replaced by similar hereditary characters. That is the essence of the evolutionary phenomenon here called "the Baldwin effect." The possibility of such an effect was noted independently and almost simultaneously by J. M. Baldwin 1 (1896), Lloyd Morgan (1896), and H. F. Osborn (1896). Lloyd Morgan (e.g., 1900) and Osborn (e.g., 1897a and b) made occasional later references to the effect (or factor, principle, or hypothesis, as you will). Baldwin (especially 1902) followed it up in greater detail. E. B. Poulton early joined the discussion, as did several others in the period 1896-1905, approximately. That three workers independently thought of the Baldwin effect at the same time demonstrates that the idea was in the air, that it was an inevitable outgrowth of the intellectual atmosphere of the time. That time was at the height of the neo-Darwinian versus neo-Lamarckian controversy and shortly before the rediscovery of Mendelism gave a radically different turn to biological thought. There was a sharp