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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.
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Understanding the Origins and Evolution of Living Organisms. The Necessity of Convergence Between Old and New Paradigms.- Part I: The Modernity of Old Paradigms.- Chapter 2: Self-Organization Meets Evolution: Ernst Haeckel and Abiogenesis.- Chapter 3: D'Arcy Thompson on Form and Intrinsic Purposiveness: Contributions to Epigenetic and Autopoietic Theory.- Chapter 4: From Dissipative Structures to Biological Evolution: A Thermodynamic Perspective.- Chapter 5: Evolutionary Transformations of Body Plan in Metazoa: Self-Organization, Topological Transformations, and Genomic-Morphogenetic Correlations.- Chapter 6: The Challenge of Bergson, Instinct as Form.- Part II: Modernity of Self-Organization and Emerging Paradigms.- Chapter 7: Biological Evolution of Microorganisms.- Chapter 8: Self-Organization in Embryonic Development: Myth and Reality.- Chapter 9: The Morphoprocess and Diversity of Evolutionary Mechanisms of Metastable Structures.- Chapter 10: Mesological Plasticity as a New Model to Study Plant Evolution, Interactive Ecosystems and Self-organized Evolutionary Processes.- Chapter 11: Thermal Worm Model to Describe Log-Periodicity in the Tree of Life.- Chapter 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.- Chapter 13: Evolutionary Creativity.
