Dr. Peter A. Corning
Field of reference: Biology, sociology, psychology, ecology
Description: Description of Holistic Darwinism. Evolution is a process dependent on co-operative and synergistic outcomes of many factors.
"I believe that Holistic Darwinism can plausibly be viewed as a candidate for a post-neo-Darwinian synthesis. It involves a paradigm that refocuses evolutionary theory on the "vessels" (to borrow a metaphor from our rowing examples) and their functional properties as the vanguard of evolutionary change. In fact, that is where natural selection as a causal dynamic actually occurs; to use an older turn of phrase, it is the vessels that are "tested" in the environment. Holistic Darwinism shifts our focus from the anthropomorphic purposes of selfish genes in theoretical isolation to the evolved, emergent purposiveness of the living systems as wholes, and to the functional interactions and relationships (adaptations in specific environments) that result in differential survival and reproduction."
| שייך לנושאים: 1-13 - חינוך אינטגרלי, -מקורות מדעיים, הטבע, 1. רמת קשר |
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