Ontopoietic Vestige: Memories of Ontogenesis in Biology and in Human Culture,

Thanks to some examples of the always more effective research on “vestigial structures” in the field of biology, this work puts in evidence as the evolutionistic paradigm, on the contrary of what is still believed by some opposite currents of thought, can extend its valence to spheres usually seen in incompatible opposition with the evolutionistic vision. At first we show how molecular analysis of modern proteins and DNA, which are considered as evolutive vestiges, can solve some of the hard questions of systematics biology. Then we analyse the results of an interesting research which allows to propose a pro-evolutionistic conception of the first Genesis’ passages (Gn 1,3) defining a new “evolutionistic theosophy”. The abovementioned interpretation is based on anthropological evidences about a sociocultural transformation, dated back to the Neolithic age, that gave rise to new religious models. Such a new scenario leads to different philosophic evaluations concerning the conceptions of anthropology and cosmology strongly coherent with the modern scientific branches; it also provide a prove of the strong degeneration of such transformation from a cognitive and psychosocial point of view.