Methodological foundation of theoretical biology
The variety of conceptions in theoretical biology is caused by complexity of organic objects which we cannot describe by a single theory as the history of biology shows it. Among various methodological approaches, the method basing on the context of world hypotheses is the most adequate for analysis of biological concepts. In this view, many biological disciplines occupy their specific place. In particular, genetics embodies the reductionist approach in biology, taxonomy embodies the typological aspect, the system theory embodies the organic one, and various evolutionary conceptions embody the historical one. In the structure of evolutionary concepts we may discern statements based on biological realities and those taken from historiosophical and sociological ideas.