Eva Jablonka

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Eva Jablonka , née Tavori , (* 1952 in Poland ) is an Israeli biologist , geneticist and evolutionary theorist. Before the mid-1980s she published as H. Tavori , then temporarily as E. Jablonka-Tavory .

Life

Jablonka came to Israel in 1957 and earned her bachelor's degree in biology from Ben Gurion University in 1976 and her master's degree with honors (Regulation of Peptide Transport in E. coli) in 1980. She received the Landau Prize for her master's thesis. In 1988 she received her PhD in Genetics from the Hebrew University under Menashe Marcus and Howard Cedar (Alterations in Chromosomal Structure and Genic Activity in the Inactive X chromosome in Female Mammals). Already in the 1980s she turned to the philosophy and history of science and was at the Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science from 1988 to 1990. From 1990 to 1993 she was a lecturer at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science (and at the same time Allon Fellow) and from 1993 Senior Lecturer and from 2000 Associate Professor at Tel Aviv University (Cohn Institute).

In 1997/98 she was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and in 2000/2001 she was a visiting scientist at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley.

It attracted attention through studies on non-genetic inheritance possibilities in the theory of evolution, for example on the transmission of behavior in animals or various epigenetic mechanisms. In doing so, she increasingly moved towards a neo-Lamarckian point of view, which in her view goes beyond the neo-Darwinian synthesis ( extended synthesis (evolution theory) , it belongs to the Altenberg-16 ). Since the 1980s she worked with Marion J. Lamb from Birkbeck College at the University of London .

Fonts

  • with Marion J. Lamb: Epigenetic Inheritance and Evolution - the Lamarckian Dimension, Oxford University Press 1995
  • with Eytan Avital: Animal Traditions: Behavioral Inheritance in Evolution, Cambridge University Press 2000
  • with Marion J. Lamb: Evolution in Four Dimensions. Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life, MIT Press 1995, 2005
  • History of Inheritance (Hebrew). Ministry of Defense Publishing House, Israel 1994
  • Evolution, textbook for the Open University, Israel (Hebrew). Open University Press 1994 to 1997 (7 parts)

Some essays:

  • with MJ Lamb: Inheritance of acquired epigenetic variations, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Volume 139, 1989, pp. 69-83
  • with MJ Lamb: The evolution of heteromorphic sex chromosomes, Biological Reviews, Volume 65, 1990, pp. 249-276
  • with MJ Lamb: Species and Speciation. Nature, Vol. 356, 1992, p. 752.
  • with M. Lachmann, MJ Lamb: Evidence, mechanisms and models of the inheritance of acquired characters, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Volume 158, 1992, pp. 245-268.
  • with E. Avital: Social learning and the evolution of behavior, Animal Behavior, Volume 48, 1994, pp. 1195-1199.
  • Inheritance systems and the evolution of new levels of individuality, Journal Theoretical Biology, Volume 170, 1994, pp. 301-309.
  • with MJ Lamb: Epigenetic inheritance in evolution, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Volume 11, 1998, pp. 159-183.
  • with MJ Lamb: Genic-Neo Darwinism-is it the whole story?, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Volume 11, 1998, pp. 243-260.
  • with MJ Lamb, E. Avital: Lamarckian mechanisms in Darwinian evolution, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Volume 13, 1998, pp. 206-210.
  • with D. Dor: From cultural selection to genetic selection: a framework for the evolution of language, Selection, 1-3, 2001, pp. 33-57.
  • with M. J: Lamb: Article Epigenetics, Lamarckism in M. Pagel, Encyclopedia of Evolution, Oxford UP 2002
  • with Marion J. Lamb: Soft inheritance: Challenging the Modern Synthesis, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Volume 31, 2008, pp. 389-395

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jablonka, Lamb, Soft inheritance: Challenging the Modern Synthesis, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Volume 31, 2008, pp. 389-395
personal data
SURNAME Jablonka, Eva
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tavori, Eva (maiden name); Tavori, H .; Jablonka-Tavory, E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli biologist, geneticist and evolutionary theorist
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Poland