Holistic Darwinism synergy, cybernetics, and the bioeconomics of evolution / [electronic resource] :
Peter A. Corning.
- University of Chicago Press, 2005.
- 1 online resource (viii, 546 p.) : ill.
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.
Social evolution. Evolutionary economics. Sociobiology. Science: Biology--Natural History. Science. Évolution sociale. Évolution économique, Théorie de l' Sociobiologie. SOCIAL SCIENCE--General. Soziale Evolution. Soziobiologie.