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9780195095999

At Home in the Universe The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity

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    9780195095999

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    0195095995

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1995-09-07
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

At Home in the Universe presents and extends the intellectual core ofKauffman's earlier book The Origins of Order (OUP 1993) for any intelligentgeneral reader can understand and appreciate. The reader is very effectivelyinvited into Kauffman's vision and thought processes, in one of the moreexhilarating and important books of popular science.

Author Biography


Stuart Kauffman is a member of the Santa Fe Institute. A MacArthur fellowship recipient, he is the leading thinker on self-organization and the science of complexity as applied to biology.

Table of Contents

At Home in the Universe
3(28)
The Origins of Life
31(16)
We the Expected
47(24)
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71(22)
The Mystery of Ontogeny
93(20)
Noah's Vessel
113(18)
The Promised Land
131(18)
High-Country Adventures
149(42)
Organisms and Artifacts
191(16)
An Hour Upon the Stage
207(38)
In Search of Excellence
245(28)
An Emerging Global Civilization
273(32)
Bibliography 305(2)
Index 307

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