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The emergence of everything : how the world became complex / Harold J. Morowitz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morowitz, Harold J., author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Evolution.
- Complexity (Philosophy).
- Science--Philosophy.
- Science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (220 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2002.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-770083-7
- 0-19-988120-0
- 1-280-47332-0
- 9786610473328
- 0-19-803089-4
- 0-19-518456-4
- OCLC:
- 475956253
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