Autopoiesis: reproducción, herencia y evolucion

In this book chapter, Humberto Maturana extends his theory of autopoiesis, the account of living systems as closed, self-producing networks that continually generate their own components, to the questions of reproduction, heredity and evolution. Presented at the AAAS National Annual Meeting in Houston in January 1979 and published the following year in a symposium volume edited by Milan Zeleny on autopoiesis, dissipative structures and spontaneous social orders, the chapter sets out how Maturana understood biological reproduction and evolutionary change to follow from the self-producing organization of living systems, rather than being separate mechanisms layered on top of it. Credits: Maturana, H. (1980). Autopoiesis: reproducción, herencia y evolucion. En Z. M. (ed.) (Ed.), AAAS Selected Symposium 55 M. (ed.) Autopoiesis, dissipative structures and spontaneous social orders, AAAS Selected Symposium 55 (AAAS National Annual Meeting, Houston TX, 3–8 January 1979). (págs. 45-79). Boulder CO: Westview Press.