Evolución de las especies por cooperación natural

• Main Author: Euménides Valqui-Zuta
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de San Martín de Porres 2021-07-01
• Series: Campus
• Subjects: evolution; imperfect peace; natural cooperation; conflict; epistemological
• Online Access: https://www.aulavirtualusmp.pe/ojs/index.php/rc/article/view/2065/2211

It is a fact that life evolves, but the mechanism - currently accepted - of this process is called natural selection (Darwin, 1859), which would allow the survival of the fittests in the fight for life; conception based on antagonistic and violent struggles, which reward the fittests; colonialist vision, typical of Victorian England. A living being or a species cannot be conceived as an isolated entity that struggles to survive; if not in relation to other beings and the environment; it is a holistic vision of existence, where the evolutionary process responds to mutual relationships of interdependence and cooperation, without denying the existence of the conflict within the evolutionary process. Using the deconstructive-reconstructive philosophical methodology, I conceive of natural cooperation as the founding and constant natural mechanism of the evolution of life; the path that leads to evolutionary novelty. This cooperation, as a manifestation of natural peace, is not perfect; it is unfinished given its dynamic character in time and space, it is a perfectible cooperation that coexists with many conflicts. Imperfect natural cooperation are those collaborative realities and interrelationships that allow organic beings to obtain more favorable results to avoid the conflicts that hinder evolution; a response and natural strategy in the complexity of life. The life of the predator depends on its victim, but as disastrous as it may seem, the victim population persists; maintaining - despite this imperfection - the balance in nature.