Background
Steele, Edward John was born on October 27, 1948 in Darwin, Northwest Territories, Australia. Son of Robert George and Mary (Heffernan) Steele.
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By E. J. Steele - Somatic Selection and Adaptive Evolution: On the Inheritance of A (Second Edition) (1981-09-16) Paperback
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Somatic Selection and Adaptive Evolution: On the Inheritance of Acquired Characters
( If the thesis advanced in this book can be corroborated...)
If the thesis advanced in this book can be corroborated by experiments currently being carried out in a number of laboratories around the world, it will signify an intellectual revolution and a landmark in the history of science. E. J. Steele here suggests that on the basis of his own immunological research, the theory originally put forward by Lamarck 170 years ago and subsequently rejected—the notion that organisms may transmit characters acquired in their lifetimes to their offspring—may in fact be right. In the new postscript to the second edition, Steele presents his latest findings and replies to the enormous body of criticism his research has engendered.
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Somatic Selection and Adaptive Evolution: On the Inheritance of Acquired Characters
(The origins of the idea to write this book are impossible...)
The origins of the idea to write this book are impossible to trace. What I can say with some certainty, is that the book would not have emerged without the pleasing interplay of two contingent pleasures which occurred in the summer of 1978. The first was the penetrating sense of awe experienced when I finished reading Koestler's recent book' Janus A Summing Up', 1978. His philosophy provided that necessary inspiration to tackle, in a rational way, a long held dissatisfaction with the . conven tional Darwinian explanation of evolution. The second was the more subliminal pleasure of camping and exploring that beautiful panorama of the lake district of Northern Ontario. The book, written in an argumentative style, reviews the case for the inheritance of acquired characteristics and proposes a simple, feasible mechanism to drive this process. It is written from the narrow perspective of an experimental Immunologist with an interest in the evolution of multicellular organisms. Much attention is given to current ideas in Immunology, and at times we dive deeply into its heartland to grasp those threads relevant to a general theory of evolution. In these excursions, I take pains not to lose the general reader (although I run the risk of annoying some Immunologists), I do this so that the argument is understood by Biologists as a whole. This narrow approach path, however, eliminates areas of interest to some Biologists, e. g.
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Edward John Steele
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Bachelor of Science, U. Adelaide, Australia, 1970; Bachelor of Science with honors, U. Adelaide, Australia, 1971; Doctor of Philosophy, U. Adelaide, Australia, 1976.
Career
Postdoctoral fellow, John Curtin School Medical Research Australian National U., Canberra, 1976-1977; post doctoral fellow, Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1977-1980; Wellcome Research fellow, Clinical Research Center, Harrow, England, 1980-1981; research fellow, John Curtin School Medical Research Australian National U., Canberra, 1981-1985; adjunct senior fellow, John Curtis School Medical Research Australian National U., Canberra, since 1993; lecturer, U. Wollongong, NSW., Australia, 1985-1987; senior lecturer, U. Wollongong, 1988-1990; associate professor, U. Wollongong, since 1991.
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Somatic Selection and Adaptive Evolution: On the Inheritance of Acquired Characters
( If the thesis advanced in this book can be corroborated...)
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Somatic Selection and Adaptive Evolution: On the Inheritance of Acquired Characters
(The origins of the idea to write this book are impossible...)
- By E. J. Steele - Somatic Selection and Adaptive Evolution: On the Inheritance of A (Second Edition) (1981-09-16) Paperback
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Somatic Selection and Adaptive Evolution: On the Inheritance of Acquired Characters
Membership
Member Australian Society Immunology.
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Married Robyn Alice Lindley, November 12, 1982. Children: Anthony Vernon, Julian Andrew.
