In Das kooperative Gen. Abschied vom Darwinismus, Bauer presents the recent findings of genetic research and shapes a new view on the possible remodeling of the genomic architecture and the importance of intrinsic, non-random modifications of the genome for the evolution of organisms.Joachim Bauer: Das kooperative Gen. Abschied vom Darwinismus. Hoffmann und Campe 2008. Unlike Charles Darwin and the Modern evolutionary synthesis, Bauer considers genetic mutations not only as random changes, but as "communicators and cooperators". In this way, genes help control the "self-transformation" of an organism by making use of transposition elements, also known as 'transposons' in genetics, "which can effect the remodeling of the own genome". Transposons operate according to their intrinsic rules.
