Natural selection and self-organization: dynamical models as clues to a new evolutionary synthesis
Source:
Biology and Philosophy, Volume 11, Issue 1, p.33 - 65 (1996)Abstract:
Current work on self-organizing systems may provide a stimulus not only for increased problem solving within the Darwinian tradition, especially with respect to origins of life, developmental genetics, phylogenetic pattern, and energy-flow ecology, but for deeper understanding of the very phenomenon of natural selection itself. These developments suggest that natural selection may be grounded in physical law more deeply than is allowed by advocates of the autonomy of biology, while still making it possible to deny, with autonomists, that evolutionary explanations can be modeled in terms of a deductive relationship between laws and cases. The authors explore the relationship between chance, self-organisation, and selection as sources of order in biological systems in order to make these points.
ISBN:
01693867 (ISSN)URL:
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Journal Article
