Nature's magic : synergy in evolution and the fate of humankind /
In Nature's Magic, Peter Corning describes how synergy - a vaguely familiar term to many of us - has been a wellspring of creativity in the natural world and has played a key role in the evolution of co-operation and complexity, from physics and chemistry to the latest human technologies.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue: the new evolutionary paradigm
- The enchanted loom
- The magic castle
- Black magic
- The synergism hypothesis
- The sorcerer's apprentice
- Conjuring human evolution: the synergistic ape
- Conjuring history: does cultural evolution have an arrow?
- The science of history
- Conjuring the future: what can we predict?