Does Inheritance Need a Rethink? Conceptual Tools to Extend Inheritance beyond the DNA by Sophie Veigl, Javier Suárez, & Adrian Stencel 5 November 2019 Inheritance is an essential component of evolutionary processes. Without inheritance, evolution by natural selection cannot lead to the accumulation of complex, adaptive traits. But what can be inherited, and how? Eva Jablonka and Marion J. Lamb argued in “Evolution in Four Dimensions” that in addition to genetic inheritance, evolution can also..