Current knowledge of the genetic, epigenetic, behavioural and symbolic Systems of Inheritance requires a revision and extension of the mid-twentieth-century, gene-based, \'Modern Synthesis\' version of Darwinian evolutionary theory.
In the second section we describe and compare different types of inheritance, and in the third discuss the implications of a broad view of heredity for vario.
We present the case for this by first outlining the history that led to the neo-Darwinian view of evolution.
Current knowledge of the genetic, epigenetic, behavioural and symbolic Systems of Inheritance requires a revision and extension of the mid-twentieth-century, gene-based, \'Modern Synthesis\' version of Darwinian evolutionary theory