The negentropic theory of ontogeny: A new model of eutherian life history transitions?

A Kurismaa - Biosemiotics, 2021 - Springer
Variations in life history define key comparative and evolutionary biological questions,
important for understanding the mechanisms of mammalian evolutionary divergence …

Agential Patterns in Development and Evolution: Towards an Anti-entropic Approach to the Divergence of Altricial and Precocial Mammals

A Kurismaa - Organismal Agency: Biological Concepts and Their …, 2024 - Springer
The problems of organismal agency and phenotypic plasticity present significant interest for
modern developmental and evolutionary biology, as well as comparative and biosemiotic …

From Russia with love/Russian experimental and empirical contributions informed by an anticipatory perspective

M Nadin, A Kurismaa - International Journal of General Systems, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
In recent years, researchers have (usually independently) come to address the problem of
anticipation as in one or another way fundamental to their inquiries across a large variety of …

On the origins of anticipation as an evolutionary framework: Functional systems perspective

A Kurismaa - International Journal of General Systems, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
This paper discusses the problem of anticipation from an evolutionary and systems-
theoretical perspective, developed in the context of Russian/Soviet evolutionary biological …

The dominant as a model of chronogenic change: The relevance of AA Ukhtomsky's and LS Vygotsky's traditions for systemic cognitive studies

A Kurismaa, LP Pavlova - Centrality of history for theory construction in …, 2016 - Springer
This paper analyses the role of AA Ukhtomsky's principle of the dominant in LS Vygotsky's
psychological theory, as well as the relevance of their research traditions in the context of …

Anticipation: learning from the past. The Russian/Soviet contributions to the science of anticipation

A Bazac - 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The focus on Russian/Soviet contributions is only an opportunity to understand the
objective premises of anticipation. Since anticipation expresses a main concept …