The engine of complexity
Subtitle: evolution as computation
By: John E. Mayfield
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780231535281; 9780231163040
Subjects: SCIENCE / Life Sciences / General; Biology; NATURE / Reference; Biological control systems; Mathematical models; Evolution (Biology); Computational complexity; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology
Description: The concepts of evolution and complexity theory have become part of the intellectual ether permeating the life sciences, the social and behavioral sciences, and more recently, management science and economics. In this new title, John Mayfield elegantly synthesizes core concepts from across disciplines to offer a new approach to understanding how evolution works and how complex organisms, structures, organizations, and social orders can and do arise based on information theory and computational science.This is a big picture book intended for the intellectually adventuresome. While
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.