ABSTRACT
In the ‘structuralism’ is a modest theory, as its only purpose is to improve description. The absence of regulation of spatial form, the non-existence of an intermediate morphological level, of a structure, suffices to show the huge gap which separates this system from living beings. In the structuralist viewpoint, one does not try to explain a morphology by reduction to elements borrowed from another theory—supposedly more elementary or fundamental—as one might try to explain biology by physics and/or chemistry, or sociology by psychology or biology. The morphology exhibits properties of structural stability. In linguistics, for instance, phonetic study of the spoken language shows that this sound morphology can be decomposed into a finite set of irreducible elements, the phonemes. There is no obvious relation between the internal morphology of the chromosome and the global morphology of the living organism.
