Campanella Sara
Theor Biol Forum. 2013;106(1-2):89-101.
The 'provisional hypothesis' of pangenesis seems to be associated with a reduction of the role of geographical isolation as a factor of speciation or novelty in Darwinian thinking. On the one hand, this fact draws the attention on the interacting processes concerning the internal dynamics of organisms' development together with their effects on evolution and, on the other, the defense of the gradual action of natural selection in changing living forms. Nevertheless, these ways reveal an intimate contrast which brings to a missed synthesis. Our purpose is to show how the pangenesis could be the compromise between environment's action and the constitution of specific adaptive traits, without resorting to the idea of environment as something which gives instructions or to the idea of the organism as a vehicle. To this purpose it seems interesting to start from the speciation's problem and the origin of adaptive traits at the heart of Wagner-Darwin debate.
泛生论的“临时假说”似乎与地理隔离在达尔文思想中作为物种形成或新特性因素的作用减弱有关。一方面,这一事实将注意力吸引到与生物体发育内部动态及其对进化影响相关的相互作用过程上,另一方面,也吸引到对自然选择在改变生物形态过程中渐进作用的辩护上。然而,这些方式揭示了一种内在的矛盾,导致了一种未达成的综合。我们的目的是展示泛生论如何能够成为环境作用与特定适应性特征构成之间的折衷,而无需诉诸环境给予指令的观点或生物体作为载体的观点。为此,从瓦格纳 - 达尔文争论核心的物种形成问题和适应性特征的起源入手似乎很有意思。