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Informationen zum Autor edited by Peter A. Corning, Stuart A. Kauffman, Denis Noble, James A. Shapiro, R ichard I. Vane-Wright, and Addy Pross Klappentext "Explores the theoretical implications of teleonomy, an evolved purposeness exhibited by living systems, and how it has shaped natural selection and biological complexity"-- Zusammenfassung A unique exploration of teleonomy—also known as “evolved purposiveness”—as a major influence in evolution by a broad range of specialists in biology and the philosophy of science. The evolved purposiveness of living systems, termed “teleonomy” by chronobiologist Colin Pittendrigh, has been both a major outcome and causal factor in the history of life on Earth. Many theorists have appreciated this over the years, going back to Lamarck and even Darwin in the nineteenth century. In the mid-twentieth century, however, the complex, dynamic process of evolution was simplified into the one-way, bottom-up, single gene-centered paradigm widely known as the modern synthesis. In Evolution “On Purpose ,” edited by Peter A. Corning, Stuart A. Kauffman, Denis Noble, James A. Shapiro, Richard I. Vane-Wright, and Addy Pross, some twenty theorists attempt to modify this reductive approach by exploring in depth the different ways in which living systems have themselves shaped the course of evolution. Evolution “On Purpose” puts forward a more inclusive theoretical synthesis that goes far beyond the underlying principles and assumptions of the modern synthesis to accommodate work since the 1950s in molecular genetics, developmental biology, epigenetic inheritance, genomics, multilevel selection, niche construction, physiology, behavior, biosemiotics, chemical reaction theory, and other fields. In the view of the authors, active biological processes are responsible for the direction and the rate of evolution. Essays in this collection grapple with topics from the two-way “read-write” genome to cognition and decision-making in plants to the niche-construction activities of many organisms to the self-making evolution of humankind. As this collection compellingly shows, and as bacterial geneticist James Shapiro emphasizes, “The capacity of living organisms to alter their own heredity is undeniable.” Inhaltsverzeichnis Series Foreword vii Preface ix 1 Introduction 1 Peter A. Corning, Stuart A. Kauffman, Denis Noble, James A. Shapiro, Richard I. Vane-Wright, and Addy Pross 2 Teleonomy in Evolution: "The Ghost in the Machine" 11 Peter A. Corning 3 Cellular Basis of Cognition in Evolution: From Protists and Fungi Up to Animals, Plants, and Root-Fungal Networks 33 Frantisek Baluska, William B. Miller Jr., and Arthur S. Reber 4 Constructing "On Purpose": How Niche Construction Affects Natural Selection 59 Dominik Deffner 5 Relational Agency: A New Ontology for Coevolving Systems 79 Francis Heylighen 6 Teleonomic Anticipatory Configurations in Biological Evolution: The Downward Dynamical Nature of Goal-Directedness 105 Abir U. Igamberdiev 7 From Teleonomy to Mentally Driven Goal-Directed Behavior: Evolutionary Considerations 119 Eva Jablonka and Simona Ginsburg 8 Beyond the Newtonian Paradigm: A Statistical Mechanics of Emergence 141 Stuart A. Kauffman and Andrea Roli 9 On the Concept of Meaning in Biology 161 Kalevi Kull 10 Collective Intelligence of Morphogenesis as a Teleonomic Process 175 Michael Levin 11 Form, Function, Agency: Sources of Natural Purpose in Animal Evolution 199 Stuart A. Newman 12 How Purposive Agency Became Banned from Evolutionary Biology 221 Denis Noble and Raymond Noble 13 Goal Attributions in Biology: Objective Fact, Anthropomorphic Bias, or Valuable Heuristic? 237 Samir Okasha 14 Toward the Physicalization of Biology: Seeking the Chemical Origin of Cognition 257 Robert Pascal and Addy Pross 15 Evolutionary Change Is Naturally Biol...
