La vigencia del darwinismo: hacia una integración biosemiótica

Eugenio Andrade

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Darwinism actuality: towards a biosemiotic integration.

The prescription “natural selection of random variations”, has been challenged by Developmental Systems Theory (DST), announcing the formulation of an expanded evolutionary theory that would surpass Neo-Darwinism. Notwithstanding, Darwinism maintains its validity since its theoretical body based on three principles, Variation (V), Heredity (H) and Natural Selection (S), is susceptible to ever wider and deeper interpretations. DST provides a foundation for a semiotic interpretation that shows how the three irreducible connected terms V, H and S are specific realizations of the three universal categories (Firstness, Secondness and Thirdness) formulated by C. S. Peirce. Evolution by “natural abduction” or “individual choice structurally determined and executed with insufficient information,” is a consequence of the irreducibility of this triadic relation.

Key words. Natural selecion, variation, heredity, Developmental Systems Theory, biosemiotic, Peirce, natural abduction.


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