Selección natural y autoorganización

Natural selection and self-organization:
a deep dichotomy in the study of organic form

MARTA LINDE MEDINA

There are two approaches in the study of organic form: the externalist and the internalist perspective. The concept of the nature of matter, on which the logical structure of these two systems of thought has been constructed, is their crucial difference. From the externalist viewpoint, living matter is a passive and a non-intrinsically ordered entity that needs an external factor (natural selection) to acquire form. From the internalist perspective, living matter is an active entity capable of exhibiting order spontaneously. Internalist theories were definitively abandoned at the beginning of twentieth century due to the mystical halo, which has always accompanied the idea of an inner factor driving morphological change. Recent studies on the physics of complexity are revealing that matter is capable of self-organization, providing strong support to the internalist view. Now an important question arises: Do we need an extended evolutionary synthesis? This question will be analyzed here.

Limits to Darwinism

S. N. SALTHE

How deep is the conflict between self-organization and natural selection?

EUGENIO ANDRADE

Nacer puede ser fácil;
lo difícil es no morir

GUSTAVO CAPONI

Critique of the internalism/externalism approach as a way of extending the synthetic theory

VICENTE DRESSINO

Enfoques y desenfoques de los programas de investigación de la biología evolutiva del desarrollo

GUILLERMO FOLGUERA

¿Existe antagonismo entre selección natural y autorganización?

JOAN RIERA, ANDRÉS MOYA

Assuming in biology the reality of real virtuality (a come back for entelechy?)

ARMANDO ARANDA-ANZALDO

The developmental specificity of physical mechanisms

STUART A. NEWMAN

Conflated epistemology or how to lose the organism (again)

LUIS RAMÍREZ-TREJO, BORIS DEMAREST, JORIS VAN POUCKE, GERTRUDIS VAN DE VIJVER

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MARTA LINDE MEDINA

Active matter, organisms and their others

ARANTZA ETXEBERRIA