Extended inheritance as reconstruction of extended organization: the paradigmatic case of symbiosis
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https://doi.org/10.20416/lsrsps.v3i1.343Keywords:
extended inheritance, extended organization, persisting organizational constraints, composite biological systems, symbiotic transmissionAbstract
The paper outlines the contours of an organizational perspective on extended inheritance. Based on theoretical studies about biological organization and extended physiology, this perspective allows for the conception of extended biological legacies while keeping a theoretically indispensable distinction between biological systems and their environment. In this context, the line of demarcation between these systems and their surroundings is modelled on an organizational criterion and on the related conceptual distinction between organizational constraints, whose specific role is to harness flows of matter and energy across generations of composite biological systems, and resources exploited by those systems. Biological legacies are restricted to persisting constitutive elements responsible for the reoccurrence of organizational constraints in a given environment. The case of symbiotic transmission is presented as a paradigmatic system illustrating the main proposed conceptual clarifications.
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QUELLER, David C., STRASSMANN, Joan E. 2009. Beyond society : the evolution of organismality. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 364(1533), 3143-3155.
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SLAGSVOLD, Tore, WIEBE, Karen L. 2007. Learning the ecological niche. Proc. Biol. Sci., 274(1606), 19-23.
STERELNY, Kim, SMITH, Kelly C., DICKINSON, Michael. 1996. The extended replicator. Biology & Philosophy, 11(3), 377- 403.
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TEIXEIRA, Luis, FERREIRA, Alvaro, ASHBURNER, Michael. 2008. The Bacterial Symbiont Wolbachia Induces Resistance to RNA Viral Infections in Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS Biol, 6(12), 2753-2763.
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TURNER, J. Scott. 2002. A superorganism’s fuzzy boundary. Natural History, 111(6), 62-67.
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VAN BAALEN, Minus, JANSEN, Vincent A. 2001. Dangerous liaisons: the ecology of private interest and common good. OIKOS, 95(2), 211-224.
VON BERTALANFFY, Ludwig. 1968. General System theory. New York: Georg Braziller.
WADDINGTON, Conrad. 1942. The epigenotype. Endeavour, 1, 18-20.
WALSH, Denis. 2010. Two neo-Darwinisms. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 32 (2-3), 317-339.
ZIENTZ, Evelyn, DANDEKAR, Thomas, GROSS, Roy. 2004. Metabolic Interdependence of Obligate Intracellular Bacteria and Their Insect Hosts. Microbiology and molecular biology review, 68 (4), 745-770.
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Pontarotti, Gaëlle. 2016. “Extended Inheritance As Reconstruction of Extended Organization: The Paradigmatic Case of Symbiosis”. Lato Sensu: Revue De La Société De Philosophie Des Sciences 3 (1). https://doi.org/10.20416/lsrsps.v3i1.343.
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