MIKROKOSMOS EVOLUCIJE: JEDNA AKTUELNA FILOZOFSKA RASPRAVA
MICROCOSM OF EVOLUTION: ONE CURRENT PHILOSOPHICAL DISCUSSION

Summary/Abstract: In recent years a discussion is ongoing about whether the idea of Darwinian populations and the principle of natural selection related to this idea can play a significant role in the explanation of neoplastic formation. According to one view, cancerous cell populations are only minimal Darwinian populations whose characteristics are not complex adaptations, while the advocates of the second point of view insist that carcinogenesis corresponds to a large extent to the evolution of the paradigmatic Darwinian populations in which selection acts at more than one level. The aim of this article is to show why the concept of multi-level selection and the evolution of cooperation represent a valuable approach in explaining the carcinogenesis.

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