On Epigenetics and Evolution

"This volume is an ambitious attempt to cover the increasingly complex terrain at the interface of epigenetics and evolutionary biology research.... epigenetics has brought about a conceptual revision from the view that novel genotypes emerge by random genetic variation and subsequent selection... toward a more complex view of heredity and genotype-phenotype relations.... epigenetics has clarified our mechanistic understanding of the emergence of genomic variation. There is a lot of interesting material in the book.... epigenetics is now understood to be crucial for phenotype formation across the entire life course, from early development to late adulthood.... [the book] also situates epigenetics within the debate between standard and extended evolutionary theory.... On Epigenetics and Evolution demonstrates how epigenetic mechanisms enrich our understanding of genotypic and phenotypic variability, inheritance, and the tempo and mode of evolutionary change. [It] is a valuable, up-to-date resource... experts in epigenetics will also find On Epigenetics and Evolution to be a useful resource." Review by Kostas Kampourakis, The Quarterly Review of Biology, June 2026