Individuals as ecosystems: an essential tension

Journal title PARADIGMI
Author/s Elena Gagliasso
Publishing Year 2015 Issue 2015/2
Language English Pages 18 P. 87-104 File size 83 KB
DOI 10.3280/PARA2015-002007
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La filosofia della biologia attuale mostra una tensione epistemologica essenziale tra l’individuo e il suo "differire", ovvero la presenza di differenze individuali in un’unica popolazione. L’articolo sottolinea l’importanza in genetica di popolazioni, dove nonostante comuni strumenti matematici, perdurano interpretazioni conflittuali. L’articolo si prefigge di mostrare il dissolversi dell’unità e della singolarità del concetto di individuo alla luce della simbiontologia e di un più vasto pensiero popolazionale. Anche se lessicalmente immutato, il concetto di individuo, da un punto di vista filosofico, si carica di nuovi significati.

Keywords: Epigenetics, hologenome, individual, population thinking, symbionts.

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Elena Gagliasso, Individuals as ecosystems: an essential tension in "PARADIGMI" 2/2015, pp 87-104, DOI: 10.3280/PARA2015-002007