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Development and evolution: complexity and change in biology

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Development and Evolution surveys and illuminates the key themes of rapidly changing fields and areas of controversy that are redefining the theory and philosophy of biology. It continues Stanley Salthe's investigation of evolutionary theory, begun in his influential book Evolving Hierarchical Systems, while negating the implicit philosophical mechanisms of much of that work. Here Salthe attempts to reinitiate a theory of biology from the perspective of development rather than from that of evolution, recognizing the applicability of general systems thinking to biological and social phenomena and pointing toward a non-Darwinian and even a postmodern biology.

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Cambridge, Mass. : : MIT Press Direct., 1993

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1 online resource (xiv, 357 pages) :illustrations

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English

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9780262282895

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computer

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online resource

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Science
Physics
Evolution (Biology)
Cosmology.

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Stanley N. Salthe

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https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/8255.001.0001

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