Introduction: a Structural and Historical Approach to Understanding Advancements in Evolutionary Theory

Winters, Andrew M.

doi:10.1007/s12304-018-9330-2

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“…Since its original formulation there have been proposals to extend the Modern Synthesis: the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, EES (Pigliucci and Müller 2010, see also the articles in a previous issue of this journal (Winters 2018), or to replace it with a more radical integrative (Noble 2016, chapter 8) or inclusive (Corning 2020) evolutionary synthesis, sometimes called the EIS. The differences between these two approaches, to extend or replace the Modern Synthesis, are analysed in Noble (2016, pp.…”

Section: The Modern Synthesis and Its Evolutionmentioning

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The Illusions of the Modern Synthesis

Noble

2021

Biosemiotics

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The Modern Synthesis has dominated biology for 80 years. It was formulated in 1942, a decade before the major achievements of molecular biology, including the Double Helix and the Central Dogma. When first formulated in the 1950s these discoveries and concepts seemed initially to completely justify the central genetic assumptions of the Modern Synthesis. The Double Helix provided the basis for highly accurate DNA replication, while the Central Dogma was viewed as supporting the Weismann Barrier, so excluding the inheritance of acquired characteristics. This article examines the language of the Modern Synthesis and reveals that it is based on four important misinterpretations of what molecular biology had shown, so forming the basis of the four Illusions: 1. Natural Selection; 2. The Weismann Barrier; 3. The Rejection of Darwin’s Gemmules; 4. The Central Dogma. A multi-level organisation view of biology avoids these illusions through the principle of biological relativity. Molecular biology does not therefore confirm the assumptions of the Modern Synthesis.

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The Illusions of the Modern Synthesis

Noble

2021

Biosemiotics

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“…Among other things, this allows specifying what the semiotic aspect can add to the understanding of evolution. A number of works have been devoted to the semiotic approach to biological evolution (Yčas 1969;Pattee 1969;Florkin 1974;Bentele 1984;Barbieri 1985;Kull 1992Kull , 1998Kull , 2016Bouissac 1993;Witzany 1993;Rothschild 1994;Nöth 1994;Sebeok 1997;Deacon 1997Deacon , 2021Cariani 1998;Hoffmeyer, Kull 2003;Hoffmeyer 2010a;Kleisner 2010;Maran, Kleisner 2010;Andrade 2011;Müller 2012;Favareau 2015;Hateren 2015;Hoffmeyer, Stjernfelt 2016;Markoš 2016;Sharov 2016;Sharov, Maran, Tønnessen 2016;Maran, Tønnessen 2016;Maran 2017;Anastasi 2017;Winters 2018;Chebanov 2019;Rodríguez H. 2023;etc.; see a review in Sharov, Kull 2022; also Kull 1999: 54-58), but there is much more to be done.…”

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Further considerations on semiosis in evolution: Arbitrarity plus semiotic fitting, and/or mutability plus natural selection

Kull

2023

SSS

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This essay attempts to combine some recent theoretical results in (bio)semiotics on arbitrariness, semiotic fitting, umwelt, choice, and extended theory of evolution into a more coherent whole. The proposed model describes a living being through its subjectivity and the ability to create meaning, which are often overlooked in models based on replicability. The concept of the umwelt is divided into two – the synchronic umwelt and the distributed or diachronic umwelt. For the latter, a new term ‘umweb’ is introduced. A mechanism of evolution is described in which arbitrary relating followed by semiotic fitting is somewhat analogous to the neo-Darwinian mechanism of random mutations followed by natural selection. The paper proceeds to discuss the alternativity and coexistence of these two radically different ways of evolution and learning.

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Magnani

2024

Pathways to the Origin and Evolution of Meanings in the Universe

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Introduction: a Structural and Historical Approach to Understanding Advancements in Evolutionary Theory

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The Illusions of the Modern Synthesis

The Illusions of the Modern Synthesis

Further considerations on semiosis in evolution: Arbitrarity plus semiotic fitting, and/or mutability plus natural selection

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