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Jason Young is an associate faculty member at Royal Roads University in the School of Environment and Sustainability and a PhD candidate in the School of Environmental Studies at Queen’s University. His interdisciplinary research drawing from (eco) phenomenology, systems theory and process philosophy seeks to reframe the ecological crisis and create new possibilities for ethical engagement. Funding: No external funding was received while writing this manuscript. Competing interests: The author declares that he has no competing interests. Received: 20 September 2022 Revised: 26 September 2022 Revised: 28 October 2022 Accepted: 2 November 2022 What is Special about Natural Drift as an Organism- Centered View of Evolution Arantza Etxeberria Agiriano University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain arantza.etxeberria/at/ehu.eus David Cortés-García University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain davidcortesgarcia.dcg/at/gmail.com > Abstract • Jorge Mpodozis presents natural drift as an organism-centered view of biological evolution. Currently, many other research programs in biol- ogy and philosophy of biology pursue organismic perspectives in evolution. We consider some of the features appear- ing in the article in this light in order to highlight what is special in Mpodozis’s proposal. We contend that collabora- tions among research programs would be valuable and suggest that the major contribution of natural drift for organis- mic projects lies in its dynamic organiza- tional features. « 1 » Jorge Mpodozis nicely presents a renewed short version of the natural-driſt idea that was advanced in Chapter 5 of e Tree of Knowledge by Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela (1984), and further developed by the author together with Mat- urana (Maturana & Mpodozis 2000). is work was a major undertaking in theoreti- cal biology, as the autopoiesis perspective had focused on autonomy and identity as primary elements in the characterization of the living, and had considered that repro- duction and evolution were just derivative, or secondary, aspects of life. erefore, clari- fying the place and role of reproduction and evolution in autopoiesis was a challenge for the theory. « 2 » Natural driſt is a critique of the neo-Darwinian interpretation of adaptation as optimization of traits. Rather, this theory emphasizes the idea that adaptation is con- served in the form of structural coupling be- tween the organism and its medium, which