特集「生物進化と人間の特性－生成文法の研究－」を企画して

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  A new theory of evolution has been proposed based on the energy steady state in living things. Any organism is under metabolism and life itself is a form of surplus energy, that is premise of life. No present function in organisms should be traced back to any teleological object, and any individual is historical existence that consists of necessary and non-necessary (surplus) modules. The driving force of evolution is in the essential surplus energy that allows species to change their life styles, and DNA is a mere substance that can stabilize or fix the species life styles. The new theory well appreciates both results of molecular and population genetics, and criticizes the confusion of the evolution and genetic aspects in The Modern Synthesis (Neo-Darwinism); the former is only one phenomenon through a whole history of life and its essence is accumulative development including diversity, the latter are partial phenomena in evolution and the essence is repeat of prefixed stationary. The new theory seems to possess essentially same cognition to that of theoretical linguistics (generative grammar) by Noam Chomsky and of modern ecology with the following common key words: a view from the whole and part, leaping over limit-manifested prejudice, and creation of the future. The situation of present environment is getting greatly serious and co-operation among sciences is required for continuation of human existence. To accelerate the co-operation, this symposium of cultural exchange between the linguistics and the evolution has been proposed as a suitable example in our society of the origin of life.