Genetic reductionism is increasingly seen as a severely limited approach to understanding living systems. The Neo-Darwinian explanatory framework tends to overlook the role of the organism for an understanding of development and evolution. In the current fast-changing theoretical landscape, the autopoietic approach provides conceptual distinctions and tools that may contribute to building an alternative framework. In this article, I examine the implications of the theories of autopoiesis and natural drift for an organism-centered view of evolution. By shifting the attention from genes to ontogenetic organism-niche configurations and their transformations over generations, this approach presents a compelling perspective on the role of organismal behavior in guiding phylogenetic drift.

遗传还原论越来越被视为理解生命系统的一种非常有限的方法。新达尔文主义的解释框架倾向于忽视有机体在理解发展和进化方面的作用。在当前快速变化的理论环境中，自创生方法提供了可能有助于构建替代框架的概念区别和工具。在这篇文章中，我研究了自创生和自然漂移理论对以有机体为中心的进化观点的影响。通过将注意力从基因转移到个体发育的有机体-生态位配置及其几代人的转化，这种方法对有机体行为在指导系统发育漂移中的作用提出了令人信服的观点。