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Alessandro Minelli¹

¹Department of Biology, University of Padova, Via Ugo Bassi 58 B, Padova, 35131, Italy. alessandro.minelli@unipd.it.

Theory in Biosciences = Theorie in Den Biowissenschaften

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Summary

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Biological systems are viewed as scaffolded systems, integrating organisms with external resources. This new perspective helps explain development, regeneration, and biological processes more holistically.

Keywords:

Developmental hybrid Irreversibility of development Metabolism/development divide Plant gall Scaffolded biological system

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Area of Science:

Developmental Biology
Ecology
Evolutionary Biology

Background:

Traditional biological descriptions rely on dichotomies like organism vs. environment, nature vs. nurture, and genetic vs. epigenetic.
Recent decades have seen growing dissatisfaction with these partitions, leading to alternative perspectives such as the extended phenotype, extended organism, Developmental Systems Theory, and niche construction theory.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose a novel conceptual framework for understanding biological phenomena by viewing organisms as functionally scaffolded systems.
To challenge existing dichotomies in biological interpretation and offer a more integrated perspective on life processes.

Main Methods:

Conceptual analysis and synthesis of existing theories in developmental biology and evolutionary ecology.
Introduction of the concept of 'scaffolding' as a resource used by biological systems in development and reproduction without being metabolized.
Application of the scaffolded system concept to explain phenomena like development irreversibility, regeneration, and plant galls.

Main Results:

Biological systems can be effectively described as hybrids between an organism (scaffolded system) and a living or non-living scaffold, forming unit systems.
The functionally scaffolded system concept provides a framework to understand the temporal marking and irreversibility of development.
This perspective offers new ways to investigate regeneration phenomena, such as hypermorphic regeneration in deer antlers, and re-evaluate the boundary between development and metabolism.

Conclusions:

Viewing biological systems as functionally scaffolded systems offers a powerful new lens for developmental biology.
This framework facilitates a periodization of development based on the initiation and termination of scaffolding relationships.
It promotes the study of phenomena like plant galls as legitimate objects within developmental biology, fostering a more integrated understanding of life.