On organization

Consider what is lacking The formalization of Mendelism and Darwinism known as the Modern Synthesis codi ed the evolutionary process as a problem in the dynamics of alleles think genes governed jointly by tness herein Darwinism and transmission herein Mendel relations The theory thus assumes the prior existence of the very entities it is meant to explain Indeed nowhere in the formalism appears any representation of the organism The theory can not therefore be reasonably expected to account for changes in the features of organisms phenotypes nor for the progression from self reproducing molecules to self maintaining metabolisms to modern cells containing organizational ele ments that once were autonomous simple cells to multicellular units with cellular di erentiation to the entities with cognition that assemble in an auditorium to talk about this very failing