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
Chapter | 1 |
Aristotelian Complex Causality | 10 |
Infodynamics in Biology | 20 |
Summary | 33 |
The Specification Hierarchy | 52 |
Summary | 93 |
Macroscopic Information as Entropic | 117 |
Paired Infodynamical Perspectives | 128 |
Summary | 192 |
Emergence | 198 |
Emergence as a Mode of Development | 214 |
Change in Hegelian Systems | 227 |
Dialectics and Development | 238 |
Chapter 6 | 245 |
Developmental Cosmology | 258 |
The Infodynamical View of the Origin and Evolution | 277 |
Summary | 136 |
Ecological and Genealogical Hierarchies | 144 |
SelfOrganization | 151 |
Agency | 159 |
SelfOrganization as Modeling the Environment | 166 |
SelfOrganization and the CollectingCascading Cycle | 173 |
Some New Theoretical Entities | 180 |
Summary and Conclusions | 289 |
Glossary | 309 |
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Development and Evolution: Complexity and Change in Biology Stanley N. Salthe Sin vista previa disponible - 1993 |
Términos y frases comunes
become behavior Bénard cells biology blastula boundary conditions Brooks and Wiley cascading cell Cmax complexity configurations constraints constructed cosmology cycle Darwinian Darwinism developmental dialectical discourse dissipative structures dynamics ecological ecosystems embryos emergence energy flow entities entropy production environment environmental equilibrium example fact figure final cause fluctuations formal formal causes friction function genotypes higher-level higher-scalar-level highly specified historical human immature systems implies increase individual infodynamics information capacity informational entropy integrative levels interactions internalist involved Kampis kind living systems logical type macroscopic material mutation nature negentropy noosphere object observer ontogenetic trajectory ontogeny particular pattern perspective perturbations physical entropy possible potential predictable principle relations result Salthe scalar hierarchy scalar levels scale Second Law self-organization semiosis semiotic senescence signs specification hierarchy sporozoans stage stored information suggested supervenience system of interpretance taken teleology theory thermodynamics tion tokens vague