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| MATURANA-ROMESIN,HUMBERTO; MPODOZIS,JORGE. |
| In this article we propose that the mechanism that gave rise to the diversity of living systems that we find today, as well as to the biosphere as coherent system of interrelated autonomous living systems, is natural drift. And we also propose that that which we biologists connote with the expression natural selection is a consequence of the history of the constitution of the biosphere through natural drift, and not the mechanism that generates that history. Moreover, we do this by proposing: a) that the history of living systems on earth is the history of the arising, conservation, and diversification of lineages through reproduction, and not of populations; b) that biological reproduction is a systemic process of conservation of a particular... |
| Tipo: Journal article |
Palavras-chave: Evolution; Natural drift; Natural selection; Lineage; Organism; Species. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-078X2000000200005 |
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| MATURANA-ROMESIN,HUMBERTO. |
| I prefer not to comment on Professor Serani's epistemological and methodological objections, as I find they do not apply to my work from the perspective of a reading that recognizes the differences between his metaphysical position and my own. Neither the introduction nor the book itself constitute a philosophical thesis, as they emerge in a metaphysical position that neither seeks nor requires transcendental arguments to justify it. It is either validated or not by the operational coherencies of the observer's life experiences. There is no doubt that I believe that the book does what it sets out to do: it shows the conditions of the constitution of living beings and the conditions of their survival. |
| Tipo: Journal article |
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| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-97602001000300006 |
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