The Selecting Organism (with Pim Edelaar)

How can organisms' own choices drive adaptive evolution, and can plasticity act as a kind of selection? Pim Edelaar, professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemical Engineering at the University Pablo de Olavide in Spain, talks with Marty Martin and Cameron Ghalambor about his book The Selective Organism: An Expanded Theory of Adaptive Evolution, which proposes a second driver of adaptive evolution alongside natural selection. The conversation covers how non-genetic inheritance and plasticity underpin the theory and what the expanded perspective means for research.