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The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis which connects the discussion about the definition of life with the discussion about the requirements for evolution by natural selection. One of the most popular definitions of life is the so-called Darwinian definition, according to which “life is a self-sustained chemical system capable of undergoing Darwinian evolution” (Joyce 1994: xi). It is an...
The concept of an organism would seem to occupy a central place in biology, since, ultimately, biology is the science of living organisms. However, despite the undisputed development of biology in recent decades, there is still no universal definition of an organism applicable to different species without raising a number of theoretical problems. One might even get the impression that the opposite...
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