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Table of contents (19 papers)
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Front Matter
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Universe
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Multiscale Complexity
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Biology
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About this book
The chapters come from a Satellite Meeting, "Evolution, Development and Complexity" (EDC) hosted at the Conference on Complex Systems, in Cancun, 2017. The contributions have been peer-reviewed and contributors from outside the conference were invited to submit chapters to ensure full coverage of the topics.
This book explores many issues within the field of EDC such as the interaction of evolutionary stochasticity and developmental determinism in biological systems and what they might teach us about these twin processes in other complex systems. This text will appeal to students and researchers within the complex systems and EDC fields.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Physics, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, USA
Georgi Yordanov Georgiev
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Acceleration Studies Foundation, Los Gatos, USA
John M. Smart
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Department of Biology, Institute of Zoology, Molecular Evolutionary Biology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Claudio L. Flores Martinez
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Department of Life Sciences, Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UK
Michael E. Price
About the editors
John M. Smart, a director and co-founder of the Evo Devo Universe research community, is a Lecturer in Foresight at the Naval Postgraduate School (Monterey, CA), and President of the Acceleration Studies Foundation, a nonprofit promoting improved scientific understanding and technical management of processes of accelerating change. He is author of Introduction to Foresight (2018), the book precis Evo Devo Universe? (2008) and the journal article Transcension hypothesis (2012).
Claudio L. Flores Martinez, a director of the Evo Devo Universe research community, is a PhD student at the University of Hamburg with a background in molecular biosciences and developmental biology (B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the University of Heidelberg). His expertise is covering areas in theoretical biology with a focus on major transitions across organizational levels of bio-complexity, the origin of life, genome evolution, convergence, top-down causation, philosophy of science, cognition, neuroscience, complex adaptive systems, technological innovation and biomimetics. He is running his own innovation consultancy for biomimetic systems design and knowledge engineering.
Michael E. Price, a director of the Evo Devo Universe research community, is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Brunel University London. Hehas a BA from Duke University and a PhD from the UC Santa Barbara Center for Evolutionary Psychology. His research interests focused initially on biological evolutionary psychology (especially, morality and human nature), but have expanded more recently to include universal Darwinism (the creative potential of Darwinian selection, across natural domains), and the evolution of religiosity.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Evolution, Development and Complexity
Book Subtitle: Multiscale Evolutionary Models of Complex Adaptive Systems
Editors: Georgi Yordanov Georgiev, John M. Smart, Claudio L. Flores Martinez, Michael E. Price
Series Title: Springer Proceedings in Complexity
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00075-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-00074-5Published: 26 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-00075-2Published: 25 June 2019
Series ISSN: 2213-8684
Series E-ISSN: 2213-8692
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 454
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 51 illustrations in colour
Topics: Complex Systems, Evolutionary Biology, Systems Biology, Complexity