Self-Organization as a New Paradigm in Evolutionary Biology - 9783031047824

Self-Organization as a New Paradigm in Evolutionary Biology
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From Theory to Applied Cases in the Tree of LifeAuthor(s): Anne Dambricourt MalasseFormat: HardbackPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG, SwitzerlandImprint: Springer International Publishing AGISBN-13: 9783031047824, 978-3031047824Synopsis

The epistemological synthesis of the various theories of evolution, since the first formulation in 1802 with the transmission of the inherited characters by [url] Lamarck, shows the need for an alternative synthesis to that of Princeton [tel]. This new synthesis integrates the scientific models of self-organization developed during the second half of the 20th century based on the laws of physics, thermodynamics, and mathematics with the emergent evolutionary problematics such as self-organized memory.

This book shows, how self-organization is integrated in modern evolutionary biology. It is divided in two parts: The first part pays attention to the modern observations in paleontology and biology, which include major theoreticians of the self-organization (d'Arcy Thompson, Henri Bergson, Rene Thom, Ilya Prigogine). The second part presents different emergent evolutionary models including the sciences of complexity, the non-linear dynamical systems, fractals, attractors, epigenesis, systemics, and mesology with different examples of the sciences of complexity and self-organization as observed in the human lineage, from both internal (embryogenesis-morphogenesis) and external (mesology) viewpoints.