"Vida y organización": Dos conceptos centrales en la biología de Lamarck. Propuestas para un nuevo lamarckismo

• Autores: Julio Alejandro Castro Moreno
• 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. 19, Nº. 35, 2011, págs. 49-71
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  • We recognize the necessity of a new-Lamarckism in biology history, which would be based on some approaches that Lamarck made on biology itself. We propose that organization and life are the central concepts of that science, according to the claims made by the French naturalist. Thus, in the first section we present the Lamarckian concepts of life and organization, as well as the interrelationships between them. The second section posits that organization and order are not synonymous in Lamarck's proposal, but complementary. In the third section we criticize the supposed linearity Lamarck attributed to improvement of organization, and we show that he proposed various ramifications in that progress. The theme of the fourth section focuses on the question of whether Lamarck's biology was only an outline, as suggested by him in various places. The conclusions indicate how we understand the new Lamarckism that we are advocating.