The Journal of Theoretical Fimpology. Volume 2, Issue 1: e-20071024-2-1-10. May 26, 2014 (www.fimpology.com)
Natural Selection is the Interaction among Evolutionary Entities and Operates at All Evolutionary Levels
Shu-dong Yin
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8661-6889
Cory H. E. R. & C. Inc., Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Email: [email protected]
Abstract
In the newly proposed theories, the following three novel notions have been summarized: (1) biological heredity occurs at least at three evolutionary levels: the molecular level, the sub-cellular level, and the cellular level; therefore, (2) both polyribonucleotide-related and non-polyribonucleotide-related inheritable alterations of evolutionary entities at the molecular, sub-cellular, and cellular levels can be passed to the next generation; and moreover, (3) inheritable alterations are revealed theoretically and empirically to be the consequence of both endogenesis and exogenesis. The thought that natural selection plays a role in evolution or speciation was first described by Darwin, which however, arose from the observation on macro-organisms including humans and non-human animals and did only account for the continuity of 'the fittest' macro-biological species. Since the mid-19th century, the tremendous effort for answering the question "what is natural selection?" has unravelled its versatile characteristics, such as a 'driving power', an 'evolutionary mechanism', or a 'process'. In this paper, based on the recently proposed UPOEE model,[1] the author tries to define nature selection to be the interaction among evolutionary entities and operate at the same and/or different evolutionary levels, and further elucidates that at the social level of human beings, the biological property of nature selection is humanized by social traits including cultural, racial, political, religious, legal and economic tint.