The 'Osaka Group,' ten years later (second Part)

Ten years after the establishment of the "Osaka Group for the Study of Dynamic Structures" (1987-1997) some of its founders and adherents "confess" what they think about the achievements of structuralism in the decade and the perspectives of the Group. Away from the geno-centric view of neo-Darwinism, the organism is reaffirmed as central entity in biology, either as expression of a morphogenetic field (with genotype as selector) or as a set of conventional rules governing the genotype. Structuralism also opposer to the imperialism and arrogance implicit in the orthodox theory of evolution. (A second group of five contributions, perhaps the last, is presented in this issue. A first group of nine papers appeared in issue 91-1, 1998).