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Peter Janich: Where does biology get its objects from?Mathias Gutmann: The status of organism: Towards a constructivist theory of organismWalter Bock: Explanations in a historical scienceChristine Hertler: Organism and morphology: Methodological differences between functional and constructional morphologyDominique G. Homberger: Similarities and differences: The distinctive approaches of systematics and comparative anatomy towards homology and analogyRaphael Falk: The organism as a necessary entity of evolutionFranz M. Wuketits: The organisms place in evolution: Darwins views and contemporary organismic theories Christian Kummer: The development of organismic structure and the philosophy behindGuiseppe Sermonti: The butterfly and the lionHarald Riedl: Organism - Ecosystem - Biosphere: Some comments on the organismic conceptSievert Lorenzen: How to advance from the theory of natural selection towards the General Theory of Self-OrganizationAntonio Lima-de-Faria: The evolutionary periodicity of flightHans-Rainer Duncker: The evolution of avian ontogenies: Determination of molecular evolution by integrated complex functional systems and ecological conditions Winfried Stefan Peters & Bernd Herkner: An outline of a theory of the constructional constraints governing early organismic evolutionWerner E. G. Müller e.a.: Monophyly of Metazoa: Phylogenetic analyses of genes encoding SerThr-kinases and a receptor Tyr-kinase from Porifera [sponges]Karl Edlinger: The evolution of the mollusc construction: Living organisms as energy-transforming systems Michael Gudo: A structural-functional approach to the soft bodies of rugose corals