Emergence and Evolution - Constraints on Form

Emergence and Evolution - Constraints on Form: "Emergence and Evolution - Constraints on Form
by Chris Lucas

'The view of evolution as chronic bloody competition among individuals and species, a popular distortion of Darwin's notion of 'survival of the fittest,' dissolves before a new view of continual cooperation, strong interaction, and mutual dependence among life forms. Life did not take over the globe by combat, but by networking.'

Lynn Margulis and Dorian Sagan, Slanted Truths, 1997

'The emergent qualities that are expressed in biological form are directly linked to the nature of organisms as integrated wholes; these can be studied experimentally and simulated by the use of complex non-linear models.'

Brian Goodwin, How the Leopard Changed its Spots, 1994, Ch 7"