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dc.contributor.authorVecchi, Davide
dc.contributor.funderAgencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo. Chile
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-23T17:48:22Z
dc.date.available2026-02-23T17:48:22Z
dc.date.issued2012-04-27
dc.descriptionThe registered version of this article, first published in Biological Theory, is available online at the publisher's website: Springer, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-012-0024-8
dc.descriptionLa versión registrada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en Biological Theory, está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: Springer, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-012-0024-8
dc.description.abstractIn Evolution: A View from the twenty-first Century, Jim Shapiro (JS henceforth) argues in uncompromising fashion that neo-Darwinism is a theory in crisis in urgent need of replacement. He also believes that biology as a whole is experiencing a process of profound conceptual transformation. In this review I evaluate JS’s two main arguments. The first is directed against the dominant evolutionary position, viz., neo-Darwinism; the second against the dominant philosophy of evolutionary and molecular biology (what JS calls the ‘‘mechanistic view of living organisms’’). JS believes that an ‘‘informatic’’ (informational) view of organisms based on the concept of natural genetic engineering will revolutionize biology. His ambition is to show that knowledge about the genomic capabilities of cells must be incorporated in the new emerging biology, and that such incorporation will not only reshape our understanding of the evolutionary process, but also promote the emergence of a new philosophy of life. I argue that while the first argument is persuasive, the second is much more problematic.en
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dc.description.sponsorshipI also thank the University of Santiago de Chile and the Chilean Government (Research Grant Fondecyt Iniciacion Investigacion No. 11110409) for all their support.
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dc.identifier.citationVecchi, D. 2013. The Trouble with Natural Genetic Engineering. Biological Theory 7(1):80-88.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-012-0024-8
dc.identifier.eissn1555-5550
dc.identifier.issn1555-5542
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/31907
dc.journal.titleBiological Theory
dc.journal.volume7
dc.language.isoen
dc.page.final88
dc.page.initial80
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.relation.centerFacultad de Filosofía
dc.relation.departmentLógica, Historia y Filosofía de la Ciencia
dc.relation.projectidinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ANID//No. 11110409
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject11 Lógica
dc.subject7205 Filosofía de la Ciencia
dc.subject.keywordsLateral Gene Transferen
dc.subject.keywordsWhole Genome Duplicationen
dc.subject.keywordsSlot Machineen
dc.subject.keywordsCluster Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeaten
dc.subject.keywordsDownward Causationen
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