Tooby John, Cosmides Leda, Barrett H Clark
Center for Evolutionary Psychology, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3210, USA.
Psychol Bull. 2003 Nov;129(6):858-65. doi: 10.1037/0033-2909.129.6.858.
Organisms inherit a set of environmental regularities as well as genes, and these two inheritances repeatedly encounter each other across generations. This repetition drives natural selection to coordinate the interplay of stably replicated genes with stably persisting environmental regularities, so that this web of interactions produces the reliable development of a functionally organized design. Selection is the only known counterweight to the tendency of physical systems to lose rather than grow functional organization. This means that the individually unique and unpredictable factors in the web of developmental interactions are a disordering threat to normal development. Selection built anti-entropic mechanisms into organisms to orchestrate transactions with environments so that they have some chance of being organization-building and reproduction-enhancing rather than disordering.
生物体不仅继承基因，还继承了一系列环境规律，并且这两种继承在代际间反复相遇。这种重复促使自然选择去协调稳定复制的基因与稳定持续的环境规律之间的相互作用，从而使这种相互作用网络产生功能组织化设计的可靠发展。选择是已知的唯一能抗衡物理系统失去而非增加功能组织化趋势的力量。这意味着发育相互作用网络中那些独特且不可预测的个体因素对正常发育构成了无序威胁。选择在生物体中构建了反熵机制来协调与环境的相互作用，以便它们有机会促进组织构建和繁殖增强，而非导致无序。
