Bucket thinking:the future framework for evolutionary explanation
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.24310/Contrastescontrastes.v0i0.1180Abstract
ABSTRACT
The hierarchical interplay between ecology and genealogy is a fundamental ingredient for the most compelling current explanations in evolutionary biology. Yet philosophy of biology has hardly welcomed a classic fundamental intuition by palaeontologist Niles Eldredge, i.e. the non-coincidence and interrelation between ecology and genealogy, and their interaction in a Sloshing Bucket fashion. Hierarchy Theory and the Sloshing Bucket need to be made precise, developed and updated in light of an explosion of new discoveries and fields and philosophical issues. They also suggests re-thinking concepts such as natural selection, species, and speciation that have always been part of evolutionary theory.
KEYWORDS
EVOLUTION, ECOLOGY, HIERARCHY THEORY, SLOSHING BUCKET, HOMO SAPIENS
RESUMEN
La interacción jerárquica entre ecología y genealogía es un ingrediente fundamental de las más convincentes explicaciones de la biología evolucionista en la actualidad. Sin embargo, la filosofía de la biología apenas ha acogido una intuición fundamental y clásica debida al paleontólogo Niles Eldredge, a saber: la no-coincidencia e interrelación entre la ecología y la genealogía, y su interacción a modo de cubeta rebosante. La Teoría de la Jerarquía y la de la Cubeta Rebosante necesitan mayor precisión, así como un ulterior desarrollo y acutalización a la luz de la explosión de nuevos descubrimientos y campos y de cuestiones filosóficas. Siguieren asimismo la necesidad de repensar conceptos tales como selección natural, especie y especiación, que han formado siempre parte de la teoría evolucionista.
PALABRAS CLAVE
EVOLUCIÓN, ECOLOGÍA, TEORÍA DE LA JERARQUÍA, CUBETA REBOSANTE, HOMO SAPIENS
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