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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Pagina 46
... natural selection , in all its truism and tautology , must obtain . To persist , the new must be of such a sort that it will endure longer than the alternatives . What lasts longer among the ripples of the random must last longer than ...
... natural selection , in all its truism and tautology , must obtain . To persist , the new must be of such a sort that it will endure longer than the alternatives . What lasts longer among the ripples of the random must last longer than ...
Pagina 239
... natural selection acts upon the gene pool of the population . But note this principle which biologists commonly overlook , that it is an acquired characteristic called " working in coal mines " which sets the context for the selection ...
... natural selection acts upon the gene pool of the population . But note this principle which biologists commonly overlook , that it is an acquired characteristic called " working in coal mines " which sets the context for the selection ...
Pagina 240
... natural selection , then it is natural to guess that the roots of too rapid " progress " —if you please - will be found in the processes of external selection . And , sure enough , that is precisely what is the case . " Time is out of ...
... natural selection , then it is natural to guess that the roots of too rapid " progress " —if you please - will be found in the processes of external selection . And , sure enough , that is precisely what is the case . " Time is out of ...
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II | 12 |
Multiple Versions of the World | 69 |
IV | 95 |
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