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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 546 p.) : illISBN:
  • 9780226116334 (electronic bk.)
  • 0226116336 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Holistic Darwinism.DDC classification:
  • 303.4 22
LOC classification:
  • JC336 .C848 2005eb
Online resources:
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.
Summary: 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 theorists who have been working to reshape the foundations of evolutionary theory. Well known for his Synergism Hypothesis--a theory of complexity in evolution that assigns a key causal role to various forms of functional synergy--Corning puts this theory into a much broader framework in Holistic Dar.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-528) and index.

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.

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 theorists who have been working to reshape the foundations of evolutionary theory. Well known for his Synergism Hypothesis--a theory of complexity in evolution that assigns a key causal role to various forms of functional synergy--Corning puts this theory into a much broader framework in Holistic Dar.

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