Peter Corning

Nature's Magic

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Nature's 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 468
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 907g
• ISBN-13: 9780521825474
• ISBN-10: 0521825474
• Artikelnr.: 21677547

Autorenporträt

Peter Corning is the Director of the Institute for the Study of Complex Systems, Palo Alto, California.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Prologue: the new evolutionary paradigm
2. The enchanted loom
3. The magic castle
4. Black magic
5. The synergism hypothesis
6. The 'Sorcerer's Apprentice'
7. Conjuring human evolution: the synergistic ape
8. Conjuring history: does cultural evolution have an 'arrow'?
9. The science of history
10. Conjuring the future: what can we predict?
Afterword
Endnotes
Bibliography.