Complexity and Evolution

Complexity and Evolution

Editorial Reviews
Book Description
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" that can be recognized. 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 that 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 that explores the many links among the physical, biological and social sciences, reaching wide-ranging and sometimes unexpected conclusions.

Complexity and Evolution,Max Pettersson,Joseph Needham,Cambridge University Press,052145400X,Life Sciences - Biology - General,Life Sciences - Evolution,Organic Evolution,Philosophy Of Science,Science,Science/Mathematics,Evolution,Science / Physics

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1. Computer Modeling and Simulations of Complex Biological Systems : Second Edition
2. Conjoined Twins : Developmental Malformations and Clinical Implications
3. Cumulative Subject Index, Volumes 228, 230262, Volume 265 (Methods in Enzymology)
4. Current Topics in Membranes: Extracellular Nucleotides and Nucleosides: Release, Receptors, and Physiological & Pathophysiological Effects (Current Topics in Membranes) (Current Topics in Membranes)
5. Data Analysis and Presentation Skills : An Introduction for the Life and Medical Sciences
6. Desk Encyclopedia of Microbiology
7. Developmental Neurobiology of Breathing (Lung Biology in Health and Disease)
8. DNA Fingerprinting in Plants and Fungi
9. Ecological Experiments : Purpose, Design and Execution (Cambridge Studies in Ecology)
10. Ecology of Arctic Environments : 13th Special Symposium of the British Ecological Society (Symposia of the British Ecological Society)

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