Domestication of Extended Heredity

The existence of inheritance not based on DNA is fact. However, the implications of such ‘extended inheritance’ for evolutionary biology are under intense debate. This book by Bonduriansky and Day (hereafter B&D) is both an illuminating summary of key findings and a balanced take on the debate [ 1 Bonduriansky R. Day T. Extended Heredity – A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution. Princeton University Press, ; 2018 Crossref Google Scholar ]. The conceptual issues play a minor role; this is a book written by evolutionary biologists with a biological message and audience in mind, and biologists from diverse fields, as well as any scholars interested in modern evolutionary biology, should find the book accessible and interesting