The 'Osaka Group', ten years later

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 morphogenic field (with genotype as selective) or as a set of conventional rules governing the genotype. Structuralism also opposes to the imperialism and arrogance implicit in the orthodox theory of evolution. (New "confessions" are expected in the following issue).