ABSTRACT

The completeness of quantum dynamics has been challenged to some extent since Einstein in 1935. And Bohm appears to have shown that there is indeed room for ‘hidden variables’, which the usual scheme of quantum theory had ruled out as a matter of principle. Particularly within the mathematical elaboration of genetics and of ecology must one in time expect to find the full-blown statement of evolutionary concepts, and that statement will be truly a biological theory. In any case the indications for indigenous biological theory coming into its own seem rather clear. For the theoretical tool are chemical kinetics, where on the one hand phenomenologically introduced rate constants are not exorbitantly far from interpretation on the basis of molecular interaction theory; and where on the other hand the observation is at the macroscopic level.