Review article
THEORY OF MORPHOGENETIC FIELDS One of possible explanations of the evolutionary change principle
Tonči Kokić
; Filosofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu
Abstract
The theory of biological evolution is accepted today as
an indisputable scientific fact by which one can explain the
transformation and multiplication of all living forms as well as
the inter-relation of those forms. But, there is no agreement
on the principle that moves the evolutionary processes. What
raises numerous objections against the theory of evolution is the
stunning abundance of living forms, because, on the basis of
gradual change of populations and survival of the most suitable
individuals, continuity in nature was expected as well. On the
contrary, in nature there is discontinuity of biological entities
(species), with strictly separated insurmountable barriers without
observable transitive forms. It is entirely right to ask how the species
of higher variety degrees, like insects, fish, birds and mammals,
have become, by procedure of gradual evolution, the mechanism
of natural selection. The theory of evolution, in all its phases, sees
the species as random, historical contingents of entities that come
to be by long accumulation of accidental successes. In view of that,
any phenotype can develop only by means of accidental mutation
and natural selection: from protein toward structures and form
organisms. The theory of evolution does not have an adequate
answer to many questions, e. g. how is it possible that in spite of
permanent accumulation of genetic changes there is a long-term
preserved condition of forms and characteristics, and also how
is it possible that there is independent evolution of homologous,
complex structures (like the eye) among numerous, very different
species? The theory of morphogenetic fields offers the answers to
those questions.
Keywords
phenotype; forms; homologous structures; morphogenetic fields; mutation; natural selection; robustness; theory of evolution
Hrčak ID:
22497
URI
Publication date:
21.9.2007.
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