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- Reticulate evolution underlies synergistic trait formation in human communitiesPublication . Gontier, Nathalie; Sukhoverkhov, AntonThis paper investigates how reticulate evolution contributes to a better understanding of human sociocultural evolution in general, and community formation in particular. Reticulate evolution is evolution as it occurs by means of symbiosis, symbiogenesis, lateral gene transfer, infective heredity, and hybridization. From these mechanisms and processes, we mainly zoom in on symbiosis and we investigate how it underlies the rise of (1) human, plant, animal, and machine interactions typical of agriculture, animal husbandry, farming, and industrialization; (2) diet‐microbiome relationships; and (3) host‐virome and other pathogen interactions that underlie human health and disease. We demonstrate that reticulate evolution necessitates an understanding of behavioral and cultural evolution at a community level, where reticulate causal processes underlie the rise of synergistic organizational traits.
- Non-genetic inheritance: Evolution above the organismal levelPublication . Sukhoverkhov, Anton; Gontier, Nathalie
- Situating physiology within evolutionary theoryPublication . Gontier, Nathalie
- Teleonomy as a problem of self-causationPublication . Gontier, Nathalie
- Hierarchies, Networks, and Causality: The Applied Evolutionary Epistemological ApproachPublication . Gontier, NathalieAvailable at https://rdcu.be/cl0vS
- Defining Communication and Language from Within a Pluralistic Evolutionary WorldviewPublication . Gontier, Nathalie
- Astrobiology, The Way ForwardPublication . Gontier, Nathalie
- Evolutionary Epistemology: Two Research Avenues, Three Schools, and A Single and Shared AgendaPublication . Gontier, Nathalie; Bradie, MichaelAvailable at https://rdcu.be/cl0vM
- Biosemiotics and Applied Evolutionary Epistemology: A Comparison.Publication . Facoetti, Marta; Gontier, NathalieBoth biosemiotics and evolutionary epistemology are concerned with how knowledge evolves. (Applied) Evolutionary Epistemology thereby focuses on identifying the units, levels, and mechanisms or processes that underlie the evolutionary development of knowing and knowledge, while biosemiotics places emphasis on the study of how signs underlie the development of meaning. We compare the two schools of thought and analyze how in delineating their research program, biosemiotics runs into several problems that are overcome by evolutionary epistemologists. For one, by emphasizing signs, biosemiotics needs to delineate a semiotic threshold, which is a problem not encountered by evolutionary epistemologists. Instead, the latter recognizes that all organisms are knowers that evolve knowledge, which they recognize to extend toward phenomena produced by organisms such as behavior, cognition, language, culture, science, and technology. Secondly, biosemiotics attempts at continuing adaptationist notions on how organisms relate to their environment, while especially Applied Evolutionary Epistemology comes to redefine the nature of the organism–environment relationship in such a way that it recognizes the spatiotemporal boundedness of existence, which in turn makes adaptationist accounts obsolete.