Complexity and evolution
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 part…
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- Full title :Complexity and evolution / Max Pettersson.
Summary
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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- Publication Date:1996.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1996.
Notes
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The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xiii, 143 pages) : : PDF file(s).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780511565564, 0511565569
- oclc:on1262568546
- LC Classification:Q158.5
- Dewey Decimal:003/.7
Table of Contents
Foreword / John Needham -- 1. Natural and other hierarchies -- 2. Major integrative levels -- 3. Some logarithmic forms of display -- 4. Physical range of integrated natural entities -- 5. Biological range of integrated natural entities (first part) -- 6. Biological range of integrated natural entities (second part) -- 7. Social range of integrated natural entities -- 8. Human societies (first part) -- 9. Human societies (second part) -- 10. Acceleration in evolution -- 11. Further allied accelerations -- 12. Aspects of number -- 13. Aspects of mass -- 14. Positive skewness -- 15. Quantitative conclusions.
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