Mind and Nature: A Necessary UnityBantam Books, 1988 - 255 pagina's A celebratory trade paper edition of a mass market classic of contemporary thought in which Bateson exhorts us to learn to "think as Nature thinks" if we are to live in harmony on this planet. |
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... evolutionary process must depend upon such double increments of information . Every evolutionary step is an addition of informa- tion to an already existing system . Because this is so , the combina- tions , harmonies , and discords ...
... evolutionary process must depend upon such double increments of information . Every evolutionary step is an addition of informa- tion to an already existing system . Because this is so , the combina- tions , harmonies , and discords ...
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... evolutionary relationship . We can then go on to consider whether the nature of the resemblances in these cases throws light on the evolutionary process . We ask : What do the homologies tell us about the process of evolution ? What we ...
... evolutionary relationship . We can then go on to consider whether the nature of the resemblances in these cases throws light on the evolutionary process . We ask : What do the homologies tell us about the process of evolution ? What we ...
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... evolutionary engineers , we faced the task of choosing a pathway of phylogeny from free - swimming , tadpolelike creatures to the sessile , wormlike Balanoglossus living in mud , we would find that the easiest course of evolution would ...
... evolutionary engineers , we faced the task of choosing a pathway of phylogeny from free - swimming , tadpolelike creatures to the sessile , wormlike Balanoglossus living in mud , we would find that the easiest course of evolution would ...
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II | 12 |
Multiple Versions of the World | 69 |
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