id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_ymncsnivn5bmlbzzluflbykxf4 C. Saborido Biological Organization and Cross-Generation Functions 2011 23 .pdf application/pdf 10743 625 47 Biological organization and cross-generation functions Biological organization and cross-generation functions maintaining a unified organizational account of biological functions. Within a self-maintaining organization, in particular, functions are Since functions are characterized as contributions of parts to selfmaintaining organizations, and since self-maintaining organizations are a "splitting account", according to which intra-generation and crossgeneration functions are in fact two different kinds of biological function, cross-generation functions contribute to the maintenance of systems which cross-generation functions, which emphasizes, instead of the selfreproduction of the trait, the self-maintenance of the whole organization as account for cross-generation function with respect to other organizational instance of the trait self-reproduces in the case of intra-generation functions, self-maintaining organization is the relevant ground of functional discourse. function if, and only if, it is subject to organizational self-maintenance in a with distinct organizations, then self-maintenance, organizational closure defining functions as the self-reproduction of traits within complex systems, ./cache/work_ymncsnivn5bmlbzzluflbykxf4.pdf ./txt/work_ymncsnivn5bmlbzzluflbykxf4.txt