Evolutionary systems
Subtitle: biological and epistemological perspectives on selection and self-organization
By: edited by Gertrudis van de Vijver, Stanley N. Salthe, Manuela Delpos.
Contributors: Van de Vijver, Gertrudis.; Salthe, Stanley N.; Delpos, Manuela.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 438
Subjects: Evolution (Biology) -- Philosophy; Natural selection -- Philosophy; Self-organizing systems -- Philosophy
Description: "To understand how complex dynamical systems, living or non-living, linguistic or non-linguistic, come to be organized as systems, to understand how their inherent dynamic nature gives rise to organizations and forms that have found a balance between potentiality for change and evolution on the one hand, and requisite stability in a given environment on the other, is the main ambition of Evolotionary Systems."--Jacket.

"The aim of the present volume is to elucidate the scientific and philosophical backgrounds that play a role in one of the major debates taking place in that field, namely that on the relation between selection and self-organization. This volume will be of interest to biologists, philosophers of science, systems scientists, mathematicians, physicists, and sociologists of science."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.