Chaos and Life Complexity and Order in Evolution and Thought

Name: Chaos and Life Complexity and Order in Evolution and Thought
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ISBN: 9780231126625

ISBN-10: 023112662X

ISBN-13: 9780231126625

Edition: 2003

Authors: Richard Bird

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Why, in a scientific age, do people routinely turn to astrologers, mediums, cultists, and every kind of irrational practitioner rather than to science to meet their spiritual needs? The answer, according to Richard J. Bird, is that science, especially biology, has embraced a view of life that renders meaningless the coincidences, serendipities, and other seemingly significant occurrences that fill people's everyday existence. Evolutionary biology rests on the assumption that although events are fundamentally random, some are selected because they are better adapted than others to the surrounding world. This book proposes an alternative view of evolving complexity. Bird argues that…

Book details

List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 11/26/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.93" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Prolog: The Dawn of Man?



Iteration and Sequence



The Crisis in Biology



The Origin of "Species"



Chaos and Dimensionality



Chaostability



The Geometry of Life



The Living Computer



Morphology and Evolution



Entropy, Information, and Randomness



The Effectiveness of Mathematics



Life and Conflict



The World as Iteration and Recursion


Notes


Index