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Essay from the year 2024 in the subject Biology - Developmental Biology, grade: PhD, , course: Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA-SZTE), language: English, abstract: Recently an addition to Charles Darwin¿s theory of evolution has received some international publicity. It was written by researchers working in the United States who titled their study ¿On the roles of function and selection in evolving systems¿ (In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 16 October 2023.) But it is not quite clear why they did not start from an autopoietic theory that describes complex natural and social subsystems without contradiction? This would have the explanatory power to bridge the gaps in Darwin¿s theory of evolution in a more elegant way. Darwin¿s theory leaves to chance the emergence of new capacities essential for survival. These abilities prove their indispensability by being passed on by the living organism to future generations. The new theory of the history of origins and evolution has finally brought natural scientists, who had been studying the origin and evolution of life for centuries, out of their intellectual paralysis.
