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SELECTION-FREE ADAPTION. “An adaptive evolutionary mechanism without natural selection can be described by the following sequence of events.” https://lnkd.in/eS_4y_J View in LinkedIn

ROAD OF ERRORS. “Organic plasticity (as different from transformations in non-living systems) should be understood as a change that has alternatives – it should be possible also to behave in the ways that do not meet the needs, it should be possible to make errors.” https://lnkd.in/eS_4y_J View in LinkedIn

“ORGANIC PLASTICITY – the ability to solve unexpected problems, to accommodate one's behaviour during the lifetime, according to circumstances – is a universal feature of all living beings. This feature does not require an additional evolutionary explanation because it is as universal as life itself.” https://lnkd.in/eS_4y_J View in LinkedIn

REVERSIBILITY. “Adaptation is a meaningful relation for a living system, which is defined independently from the process of evolution. An adaptation is evolutionary only if it is irreversible, as evolution is defined as an irreversible transformation.” https://lnkd.in/eS_4y_J View in LinkedIn

PLASTICITY AND SPECIATION. “By the plasticity hypothesis, divergence, in the form of alternative phenotypes, life-stage differences, and contrasting traits such as those expressed under extreme or novel conditions, arises first; then particular variants are fixed in particular subpopulations due to assortative mating, environmentally mediated change in expression, or selection. … Extreme plasticity such as learning can produce exceedingly rapid (abrupt) speciation.” https://lnkd.in/eS_4y_J View in LinkedIn

IRREVERSIBLE CHANGE. “To make the change irreversible at the population level, there is no need for one particular mutation (genotype) to be spread throughout the whole population as a result of its differential reproduction – instead, it is possible simply to have one of these billions of mutations in each individual.” https://lnkd.in/eS_4y_J View in LinkedIn

NON SELECTIVE ADAPTION. “A mechanism of evolution that ensures adaptive changes without the obligatory role of natural selection is described. According to this mechanism, the first event is a plastic adaptive change (change of phenotype), followed by stochastic genetic change which makes the transformation irreversible.” https://lnkd.in/eS_4y_J View in LinkedIn

GENE INACTIVATION. “There are obviously billions of different mutations that can make a gene inactive – including the mutations of the gene itself, its regulatory region, or the genes of its regulatory factors, such as transcription factors.” https://lnkd.in/eS_4y_J View in LinkedIn

IST LINE IN THE SAND. “On 13 April 1896, H. F. Osborn gave a lecture at the meeting of the Section of Biology of the New York Academy of Sciences, titled ‘A mode of evolution requiring neither natural selection nor the inheritance of acquired characteristics’. According to the neo-Darwinian theory of evolution, such a mode is possible only as neutral evolution. Adaptive evolution has been explained in neo-Darwinism exclusively via the obligatory role of natural selection.” https://lnkd.in/eS_4y_J View in LinkedIn

FIXED WITHOUT MARKER. “A simple example can be a case in which a phenotypic change would become irreversible if a certain gene was permanently switched off.” https://lnkd.in/eS_4y_J View in LinkedIn