Recent developments in evolutionary biology rekindled the debate on whether evolutionary
theory needs a rethink. Has the path opened by Darwin been abandoned? Or is a new …

The previous chapter gave a history of evolutionary theory from Lamarck up until the debate
between the biometricians and Mendelians. What happened from that point on marks the …

Natural selection, as introduced by Charles Darwin in the Origin of Species (1859), has
always been a topic of great conceptual and empirical interest. This book puts Darwin's …

Walter Bock was committed to developing a framework for evolutionary biology. Bock
repeatedly discussed how evolutionary explanations should be considered within the realm …

In the previous chapter, a new formal representation of life based on the duality of
structuralism and the functionalities was described. In continuation with that approach, this …

I analyze the epistemic strategies used by paleontologists (between 1830–1930) to
reconstruct features of ancient organisms from fossilized bodies and footprints by presenting …

Purely from the naturalistic perspective, the phenomenon of life offers a challenge. There is
no formal way to define what life is. In a generic sense, it is possible to think of life as a …

In the preceding chapters, several aspects of genomics were deconstructed using the
formalism of involuted manifolds. It was demonstrated that several hitherto unknown features …

In the previous chapter, a topological model of genomic architecture using the formalism of
the involuted manifold was discussed. It was suggested that all the long-range influences …

In the preceding chapters, we looked at a possible topological model of genomic
architecture. Even if we were to accept the proposed model to be true on the basis of the …