[Re:] types of organization

[Thomas Schlemmermeyer]

Dov,

>It is today  politically correct to say that an amoeba and Homo represent just
>different strategies to cope with natural selection. Just two different ways
>to transmit genes.. What a terrible and dry evolutionary desert!
>Dov Por

That would be Richard Dawkins?s view. I do not know in which countries this
view is politically correct, I guess in France and Germany it is definitely not
correct.

I browsed a little bit recent, german literature about the history of biology.
It may well be true, that in today?s Germany Gould?s view about interactors,
contingencies etc. is politically more correct because such a view ties better
in with a pluralistic political system and is less suspect of science fiction
and ideology.

In France, I recall having read something by Pierre Paul Grasse who dismisses
Darwinism altogether (including "natural selection", I suspect) as an
ideological system. But I do not know the recent state of arts of politically
correct evolutionary biology in France, though I would be interested.

 Are there any good lists about the philososphy of biology?

    Thomas