This volume contains the papers presented at the International Symposium on "Synergetics - From Microscopic to Macroscopic Order", held at the Wissenschafts- kolleg z Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study Berlin), on July 4-8, 1983. Further- more, it contains a contribution of T. Ohta, who unfortunately could not partici- pate in this meeting, on the evolution of mUltigene families. The papers discuss the evolution and the function of ordered structures...