Pregnant Females as Historical Individuals: An Insight From the Philosophy of Evo-Devo
dc.contributor.author | Nuño de la Rosa, Laura | |
dc.contributor.author | Pavličev, Mihaela | |
dc.contributor.author | Etxeberria Agiriano, Miren Arantzazu | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-03-12T12:50:05Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-03-12T12:50:05Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-01-20 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Frontiers in Psychology 11 : (2021) // Article ID 572106 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.issn | 1664-1078 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/50612 | |
dc.description.abstract | Criticisms of the "container" model of pregnancy picturing female and embryo as separate entities multiply in various philosophical and scientific contexts during the last decades. In this paper, we examine how this model underlies received views of pregnancy in evolutionary biology, in the characterization of the transition from oviparity to viviparity in mammals and in the selectionist explanations of pregnancy as an evolutionary strategy. In contrast, recent evo-devo studies on eutherian reproduction, including the role of inflammation and new maternal cell types, gather evidence in favor of considering pregnancy as an evolved relational novelty. Our thesis is that from this perspective we can identify the emergence of a new historical individual in evolution. In evo-devo, historical units are conceptualized as evolved entities which fulfill two main criteria, their continuous persistence and their non-exchangeability. As pregnancy can be individuated in this way, we contend that pregnant females are historical individuals. We argue that historical individuality differs from, and coexists with, other views of biological individuality as applied to pregnancy (the physiological, the evolutionary and the ecological one), but brings forward an important new insight which might help dissolve misguided conceptions. | es_ES |
dc.description.sponsorship | LN's work was funded by two fellowships (FJCI-2014-22685 and IJCI-2017-34092) and two research projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (FFI2017-87193-P and PGC2018-099423-B-I00). MP acknowledges support from the March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center Ohio Collaborative. LN and MP were also partially supported by the Center for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, in the framework of a project on evolvability. AE is grateful for funding from the IT 1228-19 "Grants for Research Groups" of the Basque Government, and two projects by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (FFI2014-52173-P and PID2019-104576GB-I00). | es_ES |
dc.language.iso | eng | es_ES |
dc.publisher | Frontiers Media | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/FFI2017-87193-P | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/PGC2018-099423-B-I00P | es_ES |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es_ES |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ | * |
dc.subject | evo-devo | es_ES |
dc.subject | individuality | es_ES |
dc.subject | pregnancy | es_ES |
dc.subject | reproduction | es_ES |
dc.subject | historical kinds | es_ES |
dc.subject | novelty | es_ES |
dc.title | Pregnant Females as Historical Individuals: An Insight From the Philosophy of Evo-Devo | es_ES |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es_ES |
dc.rights.holder | 2021 Nuño de la Rosa, Pavličev and Etxeberria. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. | es_ES |
dc.rights.holder | Atribución 3.0 España | * |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.572106/full | es_ES |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.572106 | |
dc.departamentoes | Lógica y filosofía de la ciencia | es_ES |
dc.departamentoeu | Logika eta zientziaren filosofia | es_ES |
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