Nature's Magic. Synergy in Evolution and the Fate of Humankind

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: University Of Cambridge
Publisher Place: Cambridge. Mass
Publisher Year: 2003
Edition: First Edition

Description: 454 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In Natures Magic Peter Corning states that 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 cooperation and complexity at all levels, from physics and chemistry to the latest human technologies. The Synergism Hypothesis asserts that synergy is more than a class of interesting and ubiquitous effects. It has also been a major causal agency in evolution; it represents a unifying explanation for biological complexity and represents a different perspective on the evolutionary process. In contrast to gene-centered theories, or postulates of self-organization and emergent laws of complexity, the Synergism Hypothesis represents, in essence, an economic (or bio-economic) theory of complexity. Peter A. Corning, Ph.D., is the Director of the Institute for the Study of Complex Systems in Palo Alto, California. He has published numerous research papers and articles and three previous books, one of which was a theoretical monograph on the role of synergy in evolution, The Synergism Hypothesis: A Theory of Progressive Evolution (McGraw-Hill, 1983).

ISBN: 9780521825474