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ReviewFrontiers in psychology2019

The Interactive Construction of Biological Individuality Through Biotic Entrenchment.

Isaac Hernández, Davide Vecchi

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Review in Frontiers in psychology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Isaac HernándezLaboratoire de Recherche ERRAPHIS, Département de Philosophie, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, Toulouse, France.
Davide VecchiCentro de Filosofia das Ciências, Departamento de História e Filosofia das Ciências, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia · PTUniversité Toulouse - Jean Jaurès · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this article, we propose to critically evaluate whether a closure of constraints interpretation can make sense of biotic entrenchment, the process of assimilation and functional integration of environmental elements of biotic origin in development and, eventually, evolution. In order to achieve the aims of our analysis, we shall focus on multi-species partnerships, biological systems characterised by ontogenetic dependencies of various strengths between the partners. Our main research question is to tackle the foundational problem posed by the dynamics of biotic entrenchment characterising multi-species partnerships for the closure of constraints interpretation, namely, to understand for which biological system (i.e., the partners taken individually or the partnership as the encompassing system) closure of constraints is realised. Through the analysis of significant illustrative examples, we shall progressively refine the closure thesis and articulate an answer to our main research question. We shall also propose that biotic entrenchment provides a chief example of the phenomenon of interactive and horizontal construction of biological individuality and inter-identity.

Indexed as

autopoieisisbiological autonomybiological identitybiological individualityemergent evolutionindividuationphilosophy of biologysymbiosis

Identifiers

PMID31849738
PMCPMC6900962
OpenAlexW2994276430

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