Pedro -- You are right to look dubiously at the achievement of neoDarwinism as the sole theory of biology. What is missing (and it was realized already in the 1950’s with Schmalgausen and Waddington) is development. All dissipative structures develop -- immaturity followed by a short maturity followed by senescence -- and this was not escaped when the genetic system was incorporated, creating living dissipative structures. Development is a material law of nature, to be added to the underlying physical laws in the case of dissipative structures. Evo-Devo is a currently burgeoning part of biology discourse aimed at replacing ‘random mutation’ as the source of new directions with material divergences occurring during ontogeny. These reflect material tendencies that can not always be suppressed by genetic information guidance. They might also in some way reflect choices made by a developing system. This approach will result in bringing in a major fact of biological evolution long ignored by neoDarwinians because their explanatory tool kit could simply bot explain it -- convergent evolution.
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