GENETICS OF THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS
CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: UNDERSTANDING THE ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION OF LIVING ORGANISMS—THE NECESSITY OF CONVERGENCE BETWEEN OLD AND NEW PARADIGMS PART I THE MODERNITY OF OLD PARADIGMS SELF-ORGANIZATION MEETS EVOLUTION: ERNST HAECKEL AND ABIOGENESIS D’ARCY WENTWORTH THOMPSON’S “PHYSICO-MATHEMATICAL” APPROACH TO THE INVESTIGATION OF MORPHOGENESIS AND ITS PERTINENCE TO COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL AND/OR LEARNING-BASED EXPLANATIONS OF EVOLUTION FROM DISSIPATIVE STRUCTURES TO BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION: A THERMODYNAMIC PERSPECTIVE SELF-ORGANIZATION AT DIFFERENT LEVELS OF METAZOAN COMPLEXITY IN COMPARATIVE GENOMIC–PHENOMIC CONTEXT INSTINCT AS FORM: THE CHALLENGE OF BERGSON PART II MODERNITY OF SELF-ORGANIZATION AND EMERGING PARADIGMS BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION OF MICROORGANISMS SELF-ORGANIZATION IN EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT: MYTH AND REALITY THE MORPHOPROCESS AND THE DIVERSITY OF EVOLUTIONARY MECHANISMS OF METASTABLE STRUCTURES MESOLOGICAL PLASTICITY AS A NEW MODEL TO STUDY PLANT COGNITION, INTERACTIVE ECOSYSTEMS, AND SELF-ORGANIZED EVOLUTIONARY PROCESSES QUANTUM FRACTAL THERMODYNAMICS TO DESCRIBE THE LOG-PERIODICITY LAW IN SPECIES EVOLUTION AND HUMAN ORGANIZATIONS SAPIENS AND COGNITION: THE OPTIMAL VERTICAL NERVOUS SYSTEM—THE LAST THRESHOLD OF SELF-ORGANIZED AND SELF-MEMORIZING INCREASING COMPLEXITY FROM GAMETES TO EMBRYO EVOLUTIONARY CREATIVITY