Self-Organization as a New Paradigm in Evolutionary Biology
From Theory to Applied Cases in the Tree of Life
Gebonden Engels 2022 9783031047824Samenvatting
The epistemological synthesis of the various theories of evolution, since the first formulation in 1802 with the transmission of the inherited characters by J.B. Lamarck, shows the need for an alternative synthesis to that of Princeton (1947). This new synthesis integrates the scientific models of self-organization developed during the second half of the 20th century based on the laws of physics, thermodynamics, and mathematics with the emergent evolutionary problematics such as self-organized memory.
This book shows, how self-organization is integrated in modern evolutionary biology. It is divided in two parts: The first part pays attention to the modern observations in paleontology and biology, which include major theoreticians of the self-organization (d’Arcy Thompson, Henri Bergson, René Thom, Ilya Prigogine). The second part presents different emergent evolutionary models including the sciences of complexity, the non-linear dynamical systems, fractals, attractors, epigenesis, systemics, and mesology with different examples of the sciences of complexity and self-organization as observed in the human lineage, from both internal (embryogenesis-morphogenesis) and external (mesology) viewpoints.
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1 Introduction: Understanding the Origins and Evolution of Living Organisms. The Necessity of Convergence Between Old and New Paradigms<p></p>
<p>Anne Dambricourt Malassé</p>
<p>Part I The Modernity of Old Paradigms</p>
<p>2 Self-Organization Meets Evolution: Ernst Haeckel and Abiogenesis </p>
<p>Georgy S. Levit and Uwe Hossfeld </p>
<p>3 D'Arcy Thompson on Form and Intrinsic Purposiveness: Contributions to Epigenetic and Autopoietic Theory</p>
<p> Adam Scarfe</p>
<p>4 From Dissipative Structures to Biological Evolution: A Thermodynamic Perspective </p>
<p>Dilip Kondepudi, James Dixon and Benjamin De Bari</p>
5 Evolutionary Transformations of Body Plan in Metazoa: Self-Organization, Topological Transformations, and Genomic-Morphogenetic Correlations <p></p>
<p>Valeria. V. Isaeva </p>
<p>6 The Challenge of Bergson, Instinct as Form</p>
<p>Stephen Earle Robbins</p>
<p>Part II Modernity of Self-Organization and Emerging Paradigms</p>
<p>7 Biological Evolution of Microorganisms </p>
Werner Arber<p></p>
<p>8 Self-Organization in Embryonic Development : Myth and Reality</p> <p> Stuart Newman </p>
9 The Morphoprocess and Diversity of Evolutionary Mechanisms of Metastable Structures <p></p>
<p> Andrei I. Granovitch </p>
<p>10 Mesological Plasticity as a New Model to Study Plant Evolution, Interactive Ecosystems and Self-organized Evolutionary Processes </p>
<p> Marc-Williams Debono </p>
<p>11 Thermal Worm Model to Describe Log-Periodicity in the Tree of Life. </p>
<p> Diogo Queiros-Conde, Jean Chaline and Ivan Brissaud</p>
<p>12 Sapiens and Cognition: The Optimal Vertical Nervous System. The Last Primate Threshold of Self-Organized and Self-Memorizing Increasing Complexity from Gametes to Embryo </p>
<p>Anne Dambricourt Malassé</p>
13 Evolutionary Creativity <p></p>
<p> Edgar Morin</p>
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