Modeling in EvoDevo: How to Integrate Development, Evolution, and Ecology

Collins, James P.; Gilbert, Scott F.; Laubichler, Manfred D.; Müller, Gerd B.

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“…The huge degeneracy of these maps (Wagner 2014 [ 11 ]) is key in explaining how exploration of these spaces can take place in the evolutionary time available. Developmental systems are created by evolution and then in turn shape evolutionary outcomes; overall, it is a circular interactive process because each influences the other, leading to the EVO–DEVO view of how evolution takes place (Gilbert et al, 1996 [ 39 ], Carroll 2005, 2008 [ 41 , 42 ], Davidson and Erwin 2006 [ 166 ], Collins et al, 2007 [ 168 ]). Friston et al (2023) [ 169 ] express it this way:…”

Section: Materials Causationmentioning

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Efficient, Formal, Material, and Final Causes in Biology and Technology

Ellis

2023

Entropy

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This paper considers how a classification of causal effects as comprising efficient, formal, material, and final causation can provide a useful understanding of how emergence takes place in biology and technology, with formal, material, and final causation all including cases of downward causation; they each occur in both synchronic and diachronic forms. Taken together, they underlie why all emergent levels in the hierarchy of emergence have causal powers (which is Noble’s principle of biological relativity) and so why causal closure only occurs when the upwards and downwards interactions between all emergent levels are taken into account, contra to claims that some underlying physics level is by itself causality complete. A key feature is that stochasticity at the molecular level plays an important role in enabling agency to emerge, underlying the possibility of final causation occurring in these contexts.

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Section: Materials Causationmentioning

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Efficient, Formal, Material, and Final Causes in Biology and Technology

Ellis

2023

Entropy

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Reflections on Model Organisms in Evolutionary Developmental Biology

Love

Yoshida

2019

Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation

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Typology Reconfigured: From the Metaphysics of Essentialism to the Epistemology of Representation

Love

2008

Acta Biotheor

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The goal of this paper is to encourage a reconfiguration of the discussion about typology in biology away from the metaphysics of essentialism and toward the epistemology of classifying natural phenomena for the purposes of empirical inquiry. First, I briefly review arguments concerning 'typological thinking', essentialism, species, and natural kinds, highlighting their predominantly metaphysical nature. Second, I use a distinction between the aims, strategies, and tactics of science to suggest how a shift from metaphysics to epistemology might be accomplished. Typological thinking can be understood as a scientific tactic that involves representing natural phenomena using idealizations and approximations, which facilitates explanation, investigation, and theorizing via abstraction and generalization. Third, a variety of typologies from different areas of biology are introduced to emphasize the diversity of this representational reasoning. One particular example is used to examine how there can be epistemological conflict between typology and evolutionary analysis. This demonstrates that alternative strategies of typological thinking arise due to the divergent explanatory goals of researchers working in different disciplines with disparate methodologies. I conclude with several research questions that emerge from an epistemological reconfiguration of typology.

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Modeling in EvoDevo: How to Integrate Development, Evolution, and Ecology

Cited by 10 publications

References 74 publications

Efficient, Formal, Material, and Final Causes in Biology and Technology

Efficient, Formal, Material, and Final Causes in Biology and Technology

Reflections on Model Organisms in Evolutionary Developmental Biology

Typology Reconfigured: From the Metaphysics of Essentialism to the Epistemology of Representation

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