Chaos and life : complexity and order in evolution and thought /
An alternative view of evolving complexity. Bird argues that randomness means not disorder but infinite order and that complexity arises from the "playing out" of chaotic systems.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press
©2003.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/bird12662 |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: The Dawn of Man?
- 1. Iteration and Sequence
- 2. The Crisis in Biology
- 3. The Origin of "Species"
- 4. Chaos and Dimensionality
- 5. Chaostability
- 6. The Geometry of Life
- 7. The Living Computer
- 8. Morphology and Evolution
- 9. Entropy, Information, and Randomness
- 10. The Effectiveness of Mathematics
- 11. Life and Conflict
- 12. The World as Iteration and Recursion
- Notes
- Index.