Evo-devo como abordaje complejo de la evolución biológica
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[1] Grupo de Filosofía de las Ciencias, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires. // CONICET // Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Localización: Ludus vitalis: revista de filosofía de las ciencias de la vida = journal of philosophy of life sciences = revue de philosophie des sciences de la vie, ISSN 1133-5165, Vol. 21, Nº. 39, 2013, págs. 27-44
- Idioma: español
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Resumen
Evo-devo as a complex approach to biological evolutionEvolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo) has emerged as a proposal to study the integration between evolutionary and the organisms developmental processes. In accordance with the proposed extension of the Synthetic Theory of Evolution, evo-devo has been presented as a subdiscipline that challenges, to a certain extent, the so-called “gene centrism.” Even so, many authors have suggested that genetic reductionism is still present in evo-devo. In this article, I argue that certain approaches within evo-devo effectively challenge the genetic reductionism, and that they even manage to incorporate some approaches coming from the field of complexity. After presenting some features of the subdiscipline, I analyze which complex elements are incorporated by such approaches. I finalize with some ideas concerning the scope and importance of the changes proposed by evo-devo for the study of biological evolution.
