Chaos and Life: Complexity and Order in Evolution and Thought Bird, is that science, especially biology, has embraced a view of life that renders meaningless the coincidences, serendipities, and other seemingly significant occurrences that fill people's everyday existence. Evolutionary biology rests
| TITLE | : | Chaos and Life: Complexity and Order in Evolution and Thought |
| AUTHOR | : | |
| RATING | : | 4.95 (115 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 023112662X |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Hardcover |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 352 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 2003-11-26 |
| GENRE | : |
Why, in a scientific age, do people routinely turn to astrologers, mediums, cultists, and every kind of irrational practitioner rather than to science to meet their spiritual needs? The answer, according to Richard J. Bird, is that science, especially biology, has embraced a view of life that renders meaningless the coincidences, serendipities, and other seemingly significant occurrences that fill people's everyday existence. Evolutionary biology rests on the assumption that although events are fundamentally random, some are selected because they are better adapted than others to the surrounding world. This book proposes an alternative view of evolving complexity. Bird argues that randomness means not disorder but infinite order. Complexity arises not from many random events of natural selection (although these are not unimportant) but from the "playing out" of chaotic systemswhich are b
Editorial : This thought-provoking work will be valuable reading for students and for professionals trained in ecology and evolution. it should be required reading for advanced undergraduates, for graduate student seminars, and for discussion courses on the nature of organic evolution. Recommended for general readers, upper-level undergraduates and above.
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Bird reveals his philosophical, almost mystical, inclinations Bird's book is a product of this creative imagination that grapples with the very process itself.
(Martin Lockley The Scientific and Medical Network)
Bird's explanation of how organisms tap the universe of archetypes is radically ingenious.
(Times Literary Supplement)
Chaos and Lifeliterally challenges many of our accepted views of realityit's extremely well-written, so that if readers are
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