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Complexity and Evolution

Autor Max Pettersson Cuvânt înainte de Joseph Needham
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 iul 2009
This unique book ranges across the physical, biological and social sciences in the development of its primary theme, that there are nine major 'integrative levels' which can be recognised. The term integrative levels was first used by Joseph Needham in 1937 and has two key features. The first is that members of a given integrative level are unified entities and the second is that a member of one level is commonly composed of parts which are members of the next lower level. Thus fundamental particles form Level 1 while Level 9 is that of sovereign states. This theme has been developed by Max Pettersson in a book which explores the many links between the physical, biological and social sciences, reaching wide-ranging and sometimes unexpected conclusions.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521117951
ISBN-10: 052111795X
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Foreword by Joseph Needham; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Natural and other hierarchies; 2. Major integrative levels; 3. Some logarithmic forms of display; 4. Physical range of integrated natural entities; 5. Biological range of integrated natural entities (part one); 6. Biological range of integrated natural entities (part two); 7. Social range of integrated natural entities; 8. Human societies (part one); 9. Human societies (part two); 10. Acceleration in evolution; 11. Further allied accelerations; 12. Aspects of number; 13. Aspects of man; 14. Positive skewness; 15. Quantitative conclusions; Bibliography; Index.

Recenzii

" 'Improving Nature?' provides a much needed introduction that many teachers of general biology will find useful...[It] will also interest religious critics of genetic engineering..." The Quarterly Review of Biology
"Biologists interested in levels or organization and in patterns in the evolution of lifeshould carefully consider the ideas presented in this volume." Walter J. Bock, BioScience
"...this brief book serves its purpose if it provokes the reader to develope a more critical synoptic view of the whole shebang. I recommend it." Arthur Falk, The Quarterly Review of Biology

Descriere

A book which explores the many links between the physical, biological and social sciences.