The emergence of everything : how the world became complex / / Harold J. Morowitz
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| Autore: |
Morowitz Harold J
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| Titolo: |
The emergence of everything : how the world became complex / / Harold J. Morowitz
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (220 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 116 |
| Soggetto topico: | Complexity (Philosophy) |
| Evolution | |
| Science - Philosophy | |
| Note generali: | Previously issued in print: 2002. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; 1. The Emergence of Emergence; 2. Ideas of Emergence; 3. The Twenty-Eight Steps; 4. The First Emergence: The Primordium-Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?; 5. The Second Step: Making a Nonuniform Universe; 6. The Emergence of Stars; 7. The Periodic Table; 8. Planetary Accretion: The Solar System; 9. Planetary Structure; 10. The Geospheres; 11. The Emergence of Metabolism; 12. Cells; 13. Cells with Organelles; 14. Multicellularity; 15. The Neuron; 16. Animalness; 17. Chordateness; 18. Vertebrates; 19. Crossing the Geospheres: From Fish to Amphibians; 20. Reptiles |
| 21. Mammals22. The Niche; 23. Arboreal Mammals; 24. Primates; 25. The Great Apes; 26. Hominization and Competitive Exclusion in Hominids; 27. Toolmaking; 28. Language; 29. Agriculture; 30. Technology and Urbanization; 31. Philosophy; 32. The Spirit; 33. Analyzing Emergence; 34. Athens and Jerusalem; 35. Science and Religion; 36. The Task Ahead; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Emergence is the central concept of the sciences of complexity and the anti-reductionist agenda and impulse in science. This book examines the history of the universe from the big bang to the human spirit as a series of emergences and looks for common features and differences among these emergences. |
| Altri titoli varianti: | How the world became complex |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The emergence of everything |
| ISBN: | 0-19-770083-7 |
| 0-19-988120-0 | |
| 1-280-47332-0 | |
| 9786610473328 | |
| 0-19-803089-4 | |
| 0-19-518456-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910953576903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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