Woese, uma voz do passado, conclamou uma nova biologia para um novo século - uma ciência mais fundamental
terça-feira, junho 29, 2021
O mecanismo atômico da periodicidade biológica elimina a "teoria atual" da evolução
segunda-feira, junho 28, 2021
Interpretando a história da biologia evolutiva através de um prisma kuhniano: faz sentido ou não?
Perspectives on Science
Volume 29, Issue 1
January-February 2021
February 01 2021
Interpreting the History of Evolutionary Biology through a Kuhnian Prism: Sense or Nonsense?
Koen B. Tanghe, Lieven Pauwels, Alexis De Tiège, Johan Braeckman
Author and Article Information
Koen B. Tanghe
Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences, Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Lieven Pauwels
Department of Criminology, Criminal Law and Social Law, Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Alexis De Tiège
Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences, Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Johan Braeckman
Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences, Universiteit Gent, Belgium
We would like to thank two anonymous reviewers for their constructive review, as well as the editor Alex Levine.
Online Issn: 1530-9274
Print Issn: 1063-6145
© 2021 by The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Perspectives on Science (2021) 29 (1): 1–35.
https://doi.org/10.1162/posc_a_00359
Abstract
Traditionally, Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) is largely identified with his analysis of the structure of scientific revolutions. Here, we contribute to a minority tradition in the Kuhn literature by interpreting the history of evolutionary biology through the prism of the entire historical developmental model of sciences that he elaborates in The Structure. This research not only reveals a certain match between this model and the history of evolutionary biology but, more importantly, also sheds new light on several episodes in that history, and particularly on the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (1859), the construction of the modern evolutionary synthesis, the chronic discontent with it, and the latest expression of that discontent, called the extended evolutionary synthesis. Lastly, we also explain why this kind of analysis hasn’t been done before.
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Nova descoberta desafia princípio central em biologia: as células humanas podem escrever sequências de RNA no DNA
quarta-feira, junho 23, 2021
Cientistas descobrem uma nova característica que distingue os humanos modernos dos Neandertais
segunda-feira, junho 21, 2021
Espécies, especiação e paleontologia até a Síntese Moderna: temas persistentes e questões sem resposta
Mais uma hipótese sobre a origem da vida: formação de ligações peptídicas mecanoquímicas
terça-feira, junho 15, 2021
Source/Fonte: PhysOrg
A teoria da evolução de Darwin se transformando em teoria do Design Inteligente???
sexta-feira, junho 11, 2021
Simeon D. Castle, Claire S. Grierson & Thomas E. Gorochowski
Nature Communications volume 12, Article number: 3326 (2021)
Biological technologies are fundamentally unlike any other because biology evolves. Bioengineering therefore requires novel design methodologies with evolution at their core. Knowledge about evolution is currently applied to the design of biosystems ad hoc. Unless we have an engineering theory of evolution, we will neither be able to meet evolution’s potential as an engineering tool, nor understand or limit its unintended consequences for our biological designs. Here, we propose the evotype as a helpful concept for engineering the evolutionary potential of biosystems, or other self-adaptive technologies, potentially beyond the realm of biology.
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