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Darwin's Unfinished Business

by: Powell, Simon G.; Sagan, Dorion

Darwin's Unfinished Business

by: Powell, Simon G.; Sagan, Dorion

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Copyright: 12/22/2011
Publisher: Park Street Pr

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Simon G. Powell suggests that evolution is not just about the survival of the fittest but rather the survival of the clever and sensible. He sees Nature as a system of self-organizing intelligence whose agenda is not merely the replication of genetic matter.

Foreword	p. ix
Prologue: Darwin's Evolving Legacy	p. 1
Why Are We?	p. 11
Life: A Great Organization	p. 25
Evolution: Never Mind the Gonads, Here's the Real Agenda	p. 45
Binary Acorns: The Science of Artificial Life	p. 68
Oscillating Paradigms	p. 90
Ah, But Can Nature Pass an IQ Test?	p. 121
Close Encounters of the NI Kind	p. 148
Symbiosis: Making Sense Together	p. 183
Attractors and the Evolutionary Emergence of Mind	p. 206
The Conscious Tree of Life	p. 236
Epilogue: A Walk on the Wild Side	p. 264
Notes	p. 280
Bibliography	p. 283
Index	p. 286
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Darwin's Unfinished Business

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