Holistic Darwinism : synergy, cybernetics, and the bioeconomics of evolution

Holistic Darwinism : synergy, cybernetics, and the bioeconomics of evolution / Peter A. Corning.

In recent years, evolutionary theorists have come to recognize that the reductionist, individualist, gene-centered approach to evolution cannot sufficiently account for the emergence of complex biological systems over time. Peter A. Corning has been at the forefront of a new generation of complexity...

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Main Author: Corning, Peter A., 1935-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Social evolution.
Evolutionary economics.
Sociobiology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Evolutionary economics
Social evolution
Sociobiology
Soziale Evolution
Soziobiologie
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The new evolutionary paradigm; Part I: Synergy and evolution: from the origins of life to global governance; 1. Synergy: another idea whose time has come; 2. Holistic Darwinism: synergistic selection and the evolutionary process; 3. The synergism hypothesis: on the concept of synergy and its role in the evolution of complex systems; 4. Synergy versus self-organization in the evolution of complex systems; 5. The re-emergence of emergence: a venerable concept in search of a theory; 6. Synergy, cybernetics, and the evolution of politics.

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