Holistic Darwinism: Synergy, Cybernetics, and the Bioeconomics of Evolution
Holistic Darwinism: Synergy, Cybernetics, and the Bioeconomics of Evolution
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Abstract
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. The author of this book 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—he puts this theory into a much broader framework in this book, addressing many of the issues and concepts associated with the evolution of complex systems. The book's paradigm embraces and integrates many related theoretical developments of recent years, from multilevel selection theory to niche construction theory, gene-culture coevolution theory, and theories of self-organization. Offering new approaches to thermodynamics, information theory, and economic analysis, the book suggests how all of these domains can be brought firmly within what he characterizes as a post-neo-Darwinian evolutionary synthesis.
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Front Matter
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Introduction: The New Evolutionary Paradigm
Peter A. Corning
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Part I Synergy and Evolution: From the Origins of Life to Global Governance
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Synergy: Another Idea Whose Time Has Come?
Peter A. Corning
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Holistic Darwinism: Synergistic Selection and the Evolutionary Process
Peter A. Corning
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The Synergism Hypothesis: On the Concept of Synergy and Its Role in the Evolution of Complex Systems
Peter A. Corning
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Synergy versus Self-Organization in the Evolution of Complex Systems
Peter A. Corning
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The Re-Emergence of Emergence: A Venerable Concept in Search of a Theory
Peter A. Corning
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Synergy, Cybernetics, and the Evolution of Politics
Peter A. Corning
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Devolution as an Opportunity to Test the Synergism Hypothesis and the Cybernetic Theory of Political Systems
Peter A. Corning
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Synergy and the Evolution of Superorganisms: Past, Present, and Future
Peter A. Corning
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Synergy: Another Idea Whose Time Has Come?
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Part II Bioeconomics and Evolution
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Part III From Thermodynamics and Information Theory to Thermoeconomics and Control Information
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Part IV Evolution and Ethics
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End Matter
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