Elementos Neolamarckistas do Selecionismo Skinneriano

Abstract

Neo-Lamarckian elements of Skinnerian selectionism Evolutionary biology has been a stage of debates between neo-Darwinian and neo-Lamarckian theories. Neo-Darwinism explains every evolutionary process in terms of the selection of random genetic variations. Thus, whatever takes place in the individual's life history, in its development and learning, does not interfere in the evolutionary course. Whereas, neo-Lamarckian theory upholds the existence of multiple sources of variation, not always random ones, on which selection operates; it also concedes that development and learning may influence evolution. The goal of this essay is to show that Skinner's model of selection displays features of a neo-Lamarckian evolutionary theory. It concludes that such approximation would help behavior analysis to actively participate in contemporary discussions about evolutionary biology.

Considerações sobre o modelo de seleção pelas consequências: o que mudou em 28 anos?

“…Quer pela discordância em relação ao uso de analogias (Tonneau, 2016), quer pela sugestão de que o neolamarckismo é, hoje, a analogia mais apropriada ao selecionismo de Skinner (Lopes & Laurenti, 2016), tais considerações contrastam com a aceitação sobre a analogia com a seleção natural darwiniana, apresentada por Silva e Hunziker (1988) e também adotada por outros autores do conjunto de 1988.…”