Eva Jablonka

Eva Jablonka

Professor - Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel-Aviv

Eva Jablonka has a Ph.D in Genetics from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. Her post-Doctoral studies were in the Philosophy of Science, and in Developmental Genetics. She is a professor in the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel-Aviv.

Her main interest is the understanding of evolution, especially evolution that is driven by non-genetic hereditary variations, and in the evolutionary transition to phenomenal consciousness. The co-authored books listed below examine and discuss some of these issues.Eva Jablonka and Marion J. Lamb (1995) Epigenetic Inheritance and Evolution – The Lamarckian Dimension.  Oxford University Press; Avital E. and Jablonka E. (2000)  Animal Traditions: Behavioural Inheritance in Evolution. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press; Eva Jablonka and Marion J. Lamb (2005) Evolution in Four Dimensions. Genetic Epigenetic, Behavioral and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life.  MIT Press. Her most recent book was co-edited with Snait B. Gissis Transformations of Lamarckism: from Subtle Fluids to Molecular Biology MIT Press.


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