Development and Evolution: Complexity and Change in BiologyMIT Press, 1993 - 357 páginas Development and Evolution surveys and illuminates the key themes of rapidly changing fields and areas of controversy that the redefining the theory and philosophy of biology. It continues Stanley Salthe's investigation of evolutionary theory, begun in his influential book Evolving Hierarchical Systems, while negating the implicit philosophical mechanisms of much of that work. Here Salthe attempts to reinitiate a theory of biology from the perspective of development rather than from that of evolution, recognizing the applicability of general systems thinking to biological and social phenomena and pointing towards a non-Darwinian and even a postmodern biology. |
Contenido
Aristotelian Complex Causality | 10 |
The Problem of Change | 25 |
The Specification Hierarchy | 52 |
Summary | 93 |
Macroscopic Information as Entropic | 117 |
Toward an Infodynamics | 131 |
Ecological and Genealogical Hierarchies | 144 |
Agency | 159 |
Emergence as a Mode of Development | 214 |
Change in Hegelian Systems | 227 |
Notes toward Modeling Change | 241 |
Developmental Cosmology | 258 |
The Infodynamical View of the Origin and Evolution | 277 |
Appendix | 291 |
Glossary | 309 |
References | 327 |
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Development and Evolution: Complexity and Change in Biology Stanley N. Salthe Sin vista previa disponible - 1993 |
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