Holistic Darwinism

Synergy, Cybernetics, and the Bioeconomics of Evolution

By: Peter Corning

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Hardcover | 15 December 2005 | Edition Number 1

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In recent years, evolutionary theorists have come to recognize that the reductionist, individualist, gene-centered approach to evolution cannot sufficiently account for the emergence of complex biological systems over time. Peter A. Corning has been at the forefront of a new generation of complexity theorists who have been working to reshape the foundations of evolutionary theory. Well known for his Synergism Hypothesis--a theory of complexity in evolution that assigns a key causal role to various forms of functional synergy--Corning puts this theory into a much broader framework in "Holistic Darwinism," addressing many of the issues and concepts associated with the evolution of complex systems. Corning's paradigm embraces and integrates many related theoretical developments of recent years, from multilevel selection theory to niche construction theory, gene-culture coevolution theory, and theories of self-organization. Offering new approaches to thermodynamics, information theory, and economic analysis, Corning suggests how all of these domains can be brought firmly within what he characterizes as a post-neo-Darwinian evolutionary synthesis.

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"This is an exceptionally ambitious and important book that proposes to change the way most of us have thought about 'Darwinism' and evolutionary processes. Corning achieves this goal in many ways, but most effectively by integrating both his own diverse work in recent years and citation of just about everyone who has played a major role in scholarly dialogue on evolutionary biology and behavior over the last generation." - Roger D. Masters. Dartmouth College"

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Introduction: The New Evolutionary Paradigm	p. 1
Synergy and Evolution: From the Origins of Life to Global Governance
Synergy: Another Idea Whose Time Has Come?	p. 11
Holistic Darwinism: Synergistic Selection and the Evolutionary Process	p. 17
The Synergism Hypothesis: On the Concept of Synergy and Its Role in the Evolution of Complex Systems	p. 47
Synergy versus Self-Organization in the Evolution of Complex Systems	p. 89
The Re-Emergence of Emergence: A Venerable Concept in Search of a Theory	p. 123
Synergy, Cybernetics, and the Evolution of Politics	p. 141
Devolution as an Opportunity to Test the Synergism Hypothesis and the Cybernetic Theory of Political Systems	p. 165
Synergy and the Evolution of Superorganisms: Past, Present, and Future	p. 187
Bioeconomics and Evolution
Evolutionary Economics: Metaphor or Unifying Paradigm?	p. 215
Bioeconomics as a Subversive Science	p. 237
Biological Adaptation in Human Societies: A Basic Needs Approach	p. 253
From Thermodynamics and Information Theory to Thermoeconomics and Control Information
To Be or Entropy: Thermodynamics, Information, and Life Revisited	p. 313
Thermoeconomics: Beyond the Second Law	p. 335
Control Information: The Missing Element in Norbert Wiener's Cybernetic Paradigm?	p. 361
Evolution and Ethics
Evolutionary Ethics: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?	p. 379
The Sociobiology of Democracy: Is Authoritarianism in Our Genes?	p. 403
Fair Shares: A Biological Approach to Social Justice	p. 417
Acknowledgments	p. 449
Notes	p. 453
References	p. 473
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