ABSTRACT
Acknowledging the possibility of an internal mechanism of change and the tunnel process opens up new approaches. The reigning doctrine in biology purports that all the different factors external to the genome, regardless of whether the affected changes are induced in somatic or germ cells, produce change in the genome directly. Adaptive is used denote a process by which an organism prepares itself to respond to changes in the environment whatever these changes may be. Proadaptation represents a change-specific process by which an organism gets ready for changes in the environment. Discussion of the tunnel process and heredity raises one of the most formidable problems in biology, namely, the emergence of new species via a multi-stage process of change. Biologists conducting phenomenological research into organisms’ internal mechanisms of change have been guided by the traditional search of natural scientists for laws with the organism itself, regarded as a black box.
