Form, function and biological architecture: A proposal for classifying the evolution of complexity
The concepts of evolution and evolutionary change are both vague and polysemous: they apply to very diverse phenomena and are not always precisely defined. Moreover, the widespread classical neo-Darwinian paradigm tends to impose an adaptationist scheme on the analysis of evolutionary facts, in whic...
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Escuela de Filosofía. Facultad de Humanidades y Artes, Universidad Nacional de Rosario
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://cuadernosfilosoficos.unr.edu.ar/index.php/cf/article/view/186 |
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| Sumario: | The concepts of evolution and evolutionary change are both vague and polysemous: they apply to very diverse phenomena and are not always precisely defined. Moreover, the widespread classical neo-Darwinian paradigm tends to impose an adaptationist scheme on the analysis of evolutionary facts, in which functions play a role logically prior to traits and their forms. In this paper, we propose, as a preliminary step to the development of hypotheses about the causes of change, a form-function space model that can address when trait change occurs in a biological architecture. Such a model allows us to clearly show the evolutionary scope of the different types of changes in form and function. |
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