gerichtete [Variation]

22:41 Jan 9, 2015 

Thanks, I am closing.

10:36 Jan 9, 2015 

I just would like to add that this book (Boyd/Richerson, 1985) is on sociology, not on evolutionary developmental biology like the current example in this question.

So I can imagine that - even if this wording („guided variation“) should still be up-to-date (in geisteswissenschaftlichen Kontexten, cp. e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_inheritance_theory#Guided_... -, in other disciplines (i.e. natural sciences like biology or here in this context Evo-Devo, evolutionary developmental biology, evolutionäre Entwicklungsbiologie, vgl. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionäre_Entwicklungsbiolog... the term „directed variation/mutation“ should be used, as Donald Jacobson has suggested.
One example:
"Plate used the expression “definitely directed variation” (variation in a certain direction) as it was used by many champions of orthogenesis, for instance, by Theodor Eimer (1843–1898). Plate’s words in German: “Bestimmt gerichtete Variation und Selektion schließen sich nicht aus..." Source: Levit/Hoßfeld, 2006,
https://www.academia.edu/1797581/The_Forgotten_Old-Darwinian...

10:32 Jan 9, 2015 

Just found this passage in a book review (written in April 2013) of Boyd and Richerson’s "Culture and the Evolutionary Process“, 1985:
"This book was published in 1985. It is the best book on cultural evolution from the 1980s. … However, the book has quite a few problems: …
The book introduces terminology for cultural evolution. Much of this has not dated well. It uses the term "guided variation" - where, these days, most people would say "directed mutation". The book uses the term "biased transmission", whereas these days we would just say "cultural selection" or just "selection". Hardly anyone uses the term "biased transmission" these days. The book uses the term "cultural parents" and the term "cultural offspring" - but these are not used refer to memes, but rather to their associated hosts. This does not seem like good terminology to me."
(Source: http://www.amazon.de/Culture-Evolutionary-Process-Robert-Boy...
But as this is not my field of specialty, I cannot really judge if what this reviewer claims is evidently right.

01:46 Jan 9, 2015 

you are on the right track with "guided variation" (Boyd and Richerson - 1985)

01:04 Jan 9, 2015 

I think I am outperforming myself here...

00:48 Jan 9, 2015 

I found some reference, but I'm still not sure