FUNCTION, NATURAL SELECTION AND INFORMATION

2009-09-23
Akbay, Gokhan

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Normativity of biological functions create a serious obstacle against the reduction of functional biology into molecular biology. Normativity of biological entities has two interconnected sources. One is the internal complexity and self organization demonstrated by the organism. The second source is external to the organism: Natural selection. An organism adapts to its environment by its internal autonomy. Species or populations adapt by natural selection. If these two sources of normativity can be reduced ...
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Citation Formats
G. Akbay, “FUNCTION, NATURAL SELECTION AND INFORMATION,” 2009, vol. 18, p. 101, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/64065.