Fundamental principles of theoretical biology: the principle of adaptation

Karpin Vladimir Aleksandrovich, Shuvalova Olga Ivanovna

Any modern developed theoretical science should begin with the search and justification of a small number of fundamental principles, from which all the particular laws and theories of this science can then be deductively deduced. This approach is especially needed by modern biology, which has accumulated a huge amount of factual and experimental material and is in urgent need of integrating its numerous private disciplines. The process of theoretical cognition will only raise biology to a modern scientific level, as theoretical physics has managed to do, when the long-awaited idea of creating theoretical biology is finally realized. And this is possible only if fundamental biological principles are developed. The paper discusses the biological principle of adaptation as such an example.

Keywords:theoretical biology, fundamental principles, the principle of adaptation.