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Nature 435, 565-566 (2 June 2005) | doi:10.1038/435565a; Published online 1 June 2005

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A broader view of inheritance puts pressure on the neo-darwinian synthesis.

BOOK REVIEWEDEvolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life

by Eva Jablonka & & Marion J. Lamb

Bradford Books: 2005. 462 pp. $34.95, £22.95

There have been rumblings for some time to the effect that the neo-darwinian synthesis of the early twentieth century is incomplete and due for a major revision. In the past decade, several authors have written books to articulate this feeling and to begin the move towards a second synthesis.