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| Prologue: The New Evolutionary Paradigm | |
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| What Is Synergy? | |
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| The Causal Role of Synergy in Evolution | |
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| The "Synergistic Ape" | |
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| The Perils of Prediction | |
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| The "Enchanted Loom" | |
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| A Golden Tapestry of Synergies | |
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| Technology as Synergy | |
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| Synergies 'R' Us | |
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| Synergistic Neurons | |
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| The Varieties of Synergy | |
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| Synergy Is Everywhere | |
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| The Magic Castle | |
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| The Big Whoosh | |
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| Enter Synergy | |
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| Synergy and Gravity | |
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| Fusion and Synergy | |
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| Chemistry and Synergy | |
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| The Anthropic Principle | |
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| Architectonics in Evolution | |
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| Nature's Wizardry | |
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| Catch-22 and the Synergy of RNA | |
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| The Evidence from Stromatolites | |
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| Symbiosis as a Form of Synergy | |
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| Eukaryotes Are Us | |
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| "Symbiogenesis" | |
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| The Economics of Symbiosis | |
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| Multicellular Synergy | |
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| Photosynthesis and Synergy | |
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| Cambrian Synergy | |
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| Social Synergy | |
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| Synergy in Ecosystems | |
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| An Oasis of Synergy | |
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| Synergy in the Biosphere | |
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| Good Gaia! | |
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| The Whole Shebang | |
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| "Black Magic" | |
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| Negative Synergy Is Not an Oxymoron | |
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| "Dysergy" in Cyberspace | |
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| Threshold Effects | |
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| Negative Social Synergy | |
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| The Titanic Effect | |
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| Synergy Minus One | |
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| Synergy Goes to War | |
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| Y2K: A Close Call | |
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| The Paradox of Dependency | |
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| "Devolution" as a Loss of Synergy | |
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| A Biblical Example | |
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| The Rise and Fall of Rome | |
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| Pox Romana | |
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| The Lessons of History | |
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| High and Low Synergy | |
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| Negative Synergy in Nature | |
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| The Synergism Hypothesis | |
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| Why Not Synergy? | |
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| The Vicissitudes of Synergy | |
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| The Ideological Debate about Evolution | |
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| A Favorable Tide? | |
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| Where Is Natural Selection? | |
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| The "Causes" of Evolution | |
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| The Synergism Hypothesis | |
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| Synergy and the Evolution of Complexity | |
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| The Selfish Genome | |
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| Seeing with New Eyes | |
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| Growing Support for This Theory | |
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| The Economics of Synergy | |
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| Cooperation Versus Competition | |
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| Testing for Synergy | |
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| Neo-Darwinism Compared | |
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| Egoistic Cooperation | |
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| Game Theory Revisited | |
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| Other Problems | |
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| Indirect Reciprocity | |
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| Synergistic Selection | |
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| A Stalking Horse | |
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| Turning the Necker Cube | |
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| Weighing the Synergism Hypothesis | |
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| Consider the Alternatives | |
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| Holistic Darwinism: The New Evolutionary Paradigm | |
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| "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" | |
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| Lamarck's Vision | |
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| Organic Selection | |
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| The "Pacemaker" of Evolution | |
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| Legendary Learners | |
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| The "Sentient Symphony" | |
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| Social Learning | |
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| Tool-Using Synergy | |
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| Culture Wars | |
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| Lamarck's Ghost | |
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| Other Voices | |
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| Evolution "on Purpose" | |
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| Chance, Necessity, and Teleonomy | |
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| "Downward Causation" | |
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| Selfish Memes? | |
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| "Feedback" [sic] | |
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| "Neo-Lamarckian Selection" | |
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| A Two-Way Street | |
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| Neo-Lamarckian Selection and Human Evolution | |
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| Conjuring Human Evolution: The Synergistic Ape | |
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| A Wealth of Scenarios | |
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| The Killer Ape | |
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| Food-Sharing | |
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| The Nuclear Family | |
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| The Synergism Hypothesis and Human Evolution | |
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| What Was the Context? | |
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| Primate Pre-Adaptations | |
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| Australopithecine Synergy | |
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| A Division of Labor? | |
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| Tools and Synergy | |
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| Hard Evidence for Soft Technologies | |
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| The Social Triad | |
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| "Homo Intermedius" | |
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| A Technological Revolution | |
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| A Neo-Lamarckian Process | |
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| A Hotbed of Synergy | |
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| Culture, Language, and Synergy | |
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| "Homo Symbolicus" | |
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| Language as a Prime Mover? | |
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| Language as an Invention | |
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| The Human "Revolution"? | |
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| Two Paths to Modern Humans | |
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| A Synergistic "Package" | |
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| Prehistoric Warfare? | |
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| The Rise of the Zulu Nation | |
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| Occam's Razor Revisited | |
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| The Synergistic Species | |
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| Conjuring History: Does Cultural Evolution Have an "Arrow"? | |
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| An Ancient Idea | |
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| The Age of Spencer | |
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| A Passel of Prime Movers | |
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| The Social Conflict School | |
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| Technological Determinism | |
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| What Is Technology? | |
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| Sunflower Oil | |
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| The Automobile Revolution | |
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| Technology and the Synergism Hypothesis | |
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| Down with Prime Movers! | |
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| A Trajectory without an Arrow | |
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| The Cultural "Gear-Train" | |
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| Synergy in Cultural Evolution | |
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| Synergy in Settlements | |
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| The Agricultural "Revolution" | |
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| Synergy in Chiefdomships and States | |
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| The Paradox of Dependency | |
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| Upward and Onward? | |
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| The Science of History | |
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| Pythagoras and "The Music of the Spheres" | |
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| The Neo-Pythagoreans | |
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| The Quest for Laws of History | |
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| The Law of Evolution? | |
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| Order for Free? | |
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| Self-Organization | |
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| The Law of Higglety Pigglety | |
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| Is the "Science of History" an Oxymoron? | |
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| Emergence and the Rules of Chess | |
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| Molecular Computers | |
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| Simple Models and the Hierarchy of Nature | |
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| The Causal Role of Synergy in Evolution | |
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| An Unfinished Symphony | |
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| Conjuring the Future: What Can We Predict? | |
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| The Logic of Synergy | |
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| The Logic of Failure | |
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| The Perils of Prediction | |
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| Replacing Forecasts with Strategic Plans | |
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| Some Contingent Trends | |
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| Cassandra Meets Pollyanna | |
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| Synergy and the Fate of Humankind | |
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| Tying Up the Loose Threads | |
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| Revisiting "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" | |
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| Afterword | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |