Kalevi Kull's  first lecture - "Beyond Darwin, or holding the meaning: Baer, Berg, Uexküll" - attempts to provide a little guide of the evolutionary biology for a cutting-edge philologist, whose interdisciplinary study should not stop with Darwinism. It will focus on the major trend in the non-darwinian evolutionism, as it was formed and contrasted to Darwin's theory in the 19th century by Karl Ernst von Baer, and then followed and developed in the first decades of the 20th century by Lev Berg and Jakob von Uexküll.
This non-darwinian approach can be characterized as the approach that could explain life's dynamics as the changes in the meaning-relations the organisms are embedded in.