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The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex Paperback - 2004
by Harold J. Morowitz
Summary
When the whole is greater than the sum of the parts--indeed, so great that the sum far transcends the parts and represents something utterly new and different--we call that phenomenon emergence. When the chemicals diffusing in the primordial waters came together to form the first living cell,that was emergence. When the activities of the neurons in the brain result in mind, that too is emergence. In The Emergence of Everything, one of the leading scientists involved in the study of complexity, Harold J. Morowitz, takes us on a sweeping tour of the universe, a tour with 28 stops, each one highlighting a particularly important moment of emergence. For instance, Morowitz illuminates theemergence of the stars, the birth of the elements and of the periodic table, and the appearance of solar systems and planets. We look at the emergence of living cells, animals, vertebrates, reptiles, and mammals, leading to the great apes and the appearance of humanity...
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The writer of Ecclesiastes who proclaimed that "The thing that hath been is that which shall be; and that which is done shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun" was taking an extremely short-term point of view.
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- Title The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex
- Author Harold J. Morowitz
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 209
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford ET Al.
- Date 2004-04-08
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780195173314 / 0195173317
- Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
- Dimensions 9.26 x 6.1 x 0.62 in (23.52 x 15.49 x 1.57 cm)
- Reading level 1240
- Library of Congress subjects Science - Philosophy, Evolution
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002070388
- Dewey Decimal Code 116
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