Development Evolution Complexity Change by Salthe Stanley (9 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. M.I.T. Press hardcover in dust jacket, 1993, 1st edition, clean/tight, No creases/tears, name on front endpaper otherwise unmarked and defect free; Fine/Fine. We will add a custom fitted mylar cover, bubble wrap the book and ship it in a New BOX- Not a plastic bag like the zombie sellers.…

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orig. cloth. 24x15cm, xiv,357 pp., An ink mark to bottom page-edge. Dustwrapper. "'Development and Evolution' surveys and illuminates the key themes of rapidly changing fields and areas of controversy that the 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 towards a non- Darwinian and even a postmodern biology. Salthe's intent is nothing less than to provide, with this alternative paradigm, a position from which the deconstruction of the Bacononian/Cartesian/Newtonian/Darwinian/Comptian tradition becomes possible, while at the same time suggesting in its place an organic view predicated upon Aristotelian and Hegelian antecedents. In the face of complexity, we must alter our view of the universe as inherently ordered and predictable; order develops, but at great cost. Explorating of the nature of change in a complex world, Salthe attempts to bring together such disparate areas as hierarchy theory, information theory, and semiotics in illuminating ways as he seeks a mode of answering questions as to the nature of complexity and as to how we might derive information from the interactions of the parts of a contextualized developing system" - Publisher's description. Some wear. Some binding stains. Good.…

Cambridge 1993, 357 pp., tables, dust jacket in good shape 9780262193351 (code Sc-247).