Nature's magic: synergy in evolution and the fate of humankind
Date: 10 Jan 2009, 20:06
Peter Corning, "Nature's Magic" Cambridge University Press | 2003-05-05 | ISBN: 0521825474 | 464 pages | PDF | 2,1 MB 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. The 'Synergism Hypothesis' asserts that synergy is more than a class of interesting and ubiquitous effects. It has also been a major causal agency in evolution; it represents a unifying explanation for biological complexity and represents a different perspective on the evolutionary process.
