?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Self-other+organization%3A+Why+early+life+did+not+evolve+through+natural+selection&rft.creator=Gabora%2C+Dr.+Liane+M.&rft.subject=Evolution&rft.subject=Theoretical+Biology&rft.description=The+improbability+of+a+spontaneously+generated+self-assembling+molecule+has+suggested+that+life+began+with+a+set+of+simpler%2C+collectively+replicating+elements%2C+such+as+an+enclosed+autocatalytic+set+of+polymers+(or+protocell).+Since+replication+occurs+without+a+self-assembly+code%2C+acquired+characteristics+are+inherited.+Moreover%2C+there+is+no+strict+distinction+between+alive+and+dead%3B+one+can+only+infer+that+a+protocell+was+alive+if+it+replicates.+These+features+of+early+life+render+natural+selection+inapplicable+to+the+description+of+its+change-of-state+because+they+defy+its+underlying+assumptions.+Moreover%2C+natural+selection+describes+only+randomly+generated+novelty%3B+it+cannot+describe+the+emergence+of+form+at+the+interface+between+organism+and+environment.+Self-organization+is+also+inadequate+because+it+is+restricted+to+interactions+amongst+parts%3B+it+too+cannot+account+for+context-driven+change.+A+modified+version+of+selection+theory+or+self-organization+would+not+work+because+the+description+of+change-of-state+through+interaction+with+an+incompletely+specified+context+has+a+completely+different+mathematical+structure%2C+i.e.+entails+a+non-Kolmogorovian+probability+model.+It+is+proposed+that+the+evolution+of+early+life+is+appropriately+described+as+lineage+transformation+through+context-driven+actualization+of+potential+(CAP)%2C+with+self-organized+change-of-state+being+a+special+case+of+no+contextual+influence%2C+and+competitive+exclusion+of+less+fit+individuals+through+a+selection-like+process+possibly+(but+not+necessarily)+playing+a+secondary+role.+It+is+argued+that+natural+selection+played+an+important+role+in+evolution+only+after+genetically+mediated+replication+was+established.%0A%0A++&rft.date=2006&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5583%2F1%2Fsoo.htm&rft.identifier=++Gabora%2C+Dr.+Liane+M.++(2006)+Self-other+organization%3A+Why+early+life+did+not+evolve+through+natural+selection.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5583%2F