Complexity and Evolution

by Max Pettersson and Max Patterson

Book Overview

This unique book ranges across the physical, biological and social sciences in the development of its primary theme, that there are nine major integrative levels that can be recognized. The term integrative levels was first used by Joseph Needham in 1937, and has two key features. The first is that members of a given integrative level are unified entities and the second is that a member of one level is commonly composed of parts that are members of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052145400X
• ISBN13: 9780521454001
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"