Complexity and Evolution - Couverture rigide

Pettersson, Max

 
9780521454001: Complexity and Evolution
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 052145400X ISBN 13 : 9780521454001
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1996

Synopsis

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' which can be recognised. 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 which 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 which explores the many links between the physical, biological and social sciences, reaching wide-ranging and sometimes unexpected conclusions.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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' which can be recognised. 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 which 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 which explores the many links between the physical, biological and social sciences, reaching wide-ranging and sometimes unexpected conclusions.

Revue de presse

" 'Improving Nature?' provides a much needed introduction that many teachers of general biology will find useful...[It] will also interest religious critics of genetic engineering..." The Quarterly Review of Biology

"Biologists interested in levels or organization and in patterns in the evolution of lifeshould carefully consider the ideas presented in this volume." Walter J. Bock, BioScience

"...this brief book serves its purpose if it provokes the reader to develope a more critical synoptic view of the whole shebang. I recommend it." Arthur Falk, The Quarterly Review of Biology

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1996
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
052145400X
ISBN 13 
9780521454001
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
158
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780521117951: Complexity and Evolution

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  052111795X ISBN 13 :  9780521117951
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2009
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