Holistic Darwinism Synergy, Cybernetics, and the Bioeconomics of Evolution

Name: Holistic Darwinism Synergy, Cybernetics, and the Bioeconomics of Evolution
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ISBN: 9780226116167

ISBN-10: 0226116166

ISBN-13: 9780226116167

Edition: 2005

Authors: Peter Corning

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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 Darwinism, addressing many of the issues and concepts associated with the evolution of complex…

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List price: $44.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/15/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 504
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.89" long x 0.12" tall
Weight: 1.650
Language: English



Introduction: The New Evolutionary Paradigm



Synergy and Evolution: From the Origins of Life to Global Governance



Synergy: Another Idea Whose Time Has Come?



Holistic Darwinism: Synergistic Selection and the Evolutionary Process



The Synergism Hypothesis: On the Concept of Synergy and Its Role in the Evolution of Complex Systems



Synergy versus Self-Organization in the Evolution of Complex Systems



The Re-Emergence of Emergence: A Venerable Concept in Search of a Theory



Synergy, Cybernetics, and the Evolution of Politics



Devolution as an Opportunity to Test the Synergism Hypothesis and the Cybernetic Theory of Political Systems



Synergy and the Evolution of Superorganisms: Past, Present, and Future



Bioeconomics and Evolution



Evolutionary Economics: Metaphor or Unifying Paradigm?



Bioeconomics as a Subversive Science



Biological Adaptation in Human Societies: A Basic Needs Approach



From Thermodynamics and Information Theory to Thermoeconomics and Control Information



To Be or Entropy: Thermodynamics, Information, and Life Revisited



Thermoeconomics: Beyond the Second Law



Control Information: The Missing Element in Norbert Wiener's Cybernetic Paradigm?



Evolution and Ethics



Evolutionary Ethics: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?



The Sociobiology of Democracy: Is Authoritarianism in Our Genes?



Fair Shares: A Biological Approach to Social Justice


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