Emergent Evolution: Qualitative Novelty and the Levels of Reality

by David Blitz

Emergent evolution combines three separate but related claims, whose background, origin, and development I trace in this work: firstly, that evolution is a universal process of change, one which is productive of qualitative novelties; secondly, that qualitative novelty is the emergence in a system of a property not possessed by any of its parts; and thirdly, that reality can be analyzed into levels, each consisting of systems characterized by significant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792316584
• ISBN13: 9780792316589
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"