Biology in the 21st century: Natural selection is cognitive selection

IF 4.3 3区 材料科学 Q1 ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC ACS Applied Electronic Materials Pub Date : 2024-05-11 DOI:10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2024.05.001
William B. Miller Jr. , František Baluška , Arthur S. Reber , Predrag Slijepčević
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Natural selection has a formal definition as the natural process that results in the survival and reproductive success of individuals or groups best adjusted to their environment, leading to the perpetuation of those genetic qualities best suited to that organism's environmental niche. Within conventional Neo-Darwinism, the largest source of those variations that can be selected is presumed to be secondary to random genetic mutations. As these arise, natural selection sustains adaptive traits in the context of a 'struggle for existence'. Consequently, in the 20th century, natural selection was generally portrayed as the primary evolutionary driver. The 21st century offers a comprehensive alternative to Neo-Darwinian dogma within Cognition-Based Evolution. The substantial differences between these respective evolutionary frameworks have been most recently articulated in a revision of Crick's Central Dogma, a former centerpiece of Neo-Darwinism. The argument is now advanced that the concept of natural selection should also be comprehensively reappraised. Cognitive selection is presented as a more precise term better suited to 21st century biology. Since cognition began with life's origin, natural selection represents cognitive selection.

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21 世纪的生物学:自然选择就是认知选择。
自然选择的正式定义是,个体或群体在最适应其环境的情况下获得生存和繁殖成功的自然过程,其结果是最适合该生物环境的遗传品质得以延续。在传统的新达尔文主义中,可以被选择的变异的最大来源被假定为次要的随机基因突变。当这些变异出现时,自然选择就会在 "生存斗争 "的背景下维持适应性特征。因此,在20世纪,自然选择被普遍视为进化的主要驱动力。21世纪的认知进化论为新达尔文主义提供了一个全面的替代方案。这些进化论框架之间的本质区别最近在对新达尔文主义的核心--克里克中心教条的修订中得到了阐述。现在提出的论点是,自然选择的概念也应全面重新评估。认知选择是一个更精确的术语,更适合 21 世纪的生物学。既然认知始于生命的起源,那么自然选择就代表了认知选择。
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