linkedin post 2020-10-17 05:30:06

BIOLOGY NOT PHILOSOPHY. “I hasten to add that I am an experimental biologist, not a philosopher, so I cannot claim to offer anything to this fascinating philosophical tradition. What I propose to offer, rather, is a description of what I believe to be an interesting example of how biosemiotic principles can constructively inform questions of how adaptation, and hence evolution, works. This is the “extended organism” embodied in colonies of the mound-building termites that are widespread throughout southern Africa (Macrotermes spp., Macrotermitinae).”

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12304-016-9256-5

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