The Extended Synthesis: The Law of the Conditions of Existence |
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Authors: | Daniel R Brooks |
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Institution: | (1) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G5, Canada |
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Abstract: | A unified theory of biology must incorporate a naturalistic explanation for the origin of life, namely that given certain
conditions, it was highly probable that life would originate. That theory, however, cannot be solely a theory of the origin
of life. The same general mechanisms that allowed life to originate must also explain its subsequent evolution as embodied
in the Extended Synthesis, including the origin of the inherent constraints and regularities that allowed natural selection
to emerge as a natural process. A naturalistic grounding for the origin of life and its subsequent evolution, what Darwin
called the Law of the Conditions of Existence, can be found in the natural law of history, the Second Law of Thermodynamics. |
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