The Role of Dialectical Materialism in Evolutionary Biology: Redefining Randomness and Environmental Influence on Mutation
1. Introduction: Randomness and the Mechanistic Model in Evolution In the neo-Darwinian framework of evolutionary biology, mutation is understood as a blind, spontaneous error in DNA replication, statistically distributed and independent of environmental needs or organismic function [1]. This perception reflects a broader mechanistic paradigm that separates the internal processes of the organism from its …
