Re-semblance and re-evolution: Paramorphism and semiotic co-option may explain the re-evolution of similar phenotypes
2010
Abstract
Here I propose a model of threefold origin of similar phenotypic features in unrelated organisms stemming from intrinsic,extrinsic and semiosic causation. It is suggested that neither externalist nor internalist explanations per se, nor any combination thereof, are sufficient to cover all the manifold instances of character re-evolution.
There is also a special group of resemblances that consists of what is originated, shaped, and retained in evolution due to meaning attributed to them by particular organic subjects.