The emergence of everything : how the world became complex /

The emergence of everything : how the world became complex /

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Author / Creator:	Morowitz, Harold J.
Imprint:	New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 209 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Evolution. Complexity (Philosophy) Science -- Philosophy. Complexity (Philosophy) Evolution. Science -- Philosophy. Electronic book.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11131278

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Varying Form of Title:	How the world became complex
ISBN:	9780198030898 0198030894 9780195135138 019513513X 0195184564 9780195184563 0199881200 9780199881208 1280473320 9781280473326 9786610473328 6610473323
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Framing the West argues that photography was intrinsic to British territorial expansion and settlement on the northwest coast. Williams shows how male and female settlers used photography to establish control over the territory and its indigenous inhabitants, as well as how native peoples eventually turned the technology to their own purposes. Photographs of the region were used to stimulate British immigration and entrepreneuralism, and imagies of babies and children were designed to advertise the population growth of the settlers. Although Indians were taken by Anglos to document their ""dis.
Other form:	Print version: Morowitz, Harold J. Emergence of everything. New York : Oxford University Press, 2002 019513513X

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Summary:	When the whole is greater than the sum of the parts--indeed, so great that the sum far transcends the parts and represents something utterly new and different--we call that phenomenon emergence. When the chemicals diffusing in the primordial waters came together to form the first living cell, that was emergence. When the activities of the neurons in the brain result in mind, that too is emergence. In The Emergence of Everything, one of the leading scientists involved in the study of complexity, Harold J. Morowitz, takes us on a sweeping tour of the universe, a tour with 28 stops, each one highlighting a particularly important moment of emergence. For instance, Morowitz illuminates the emergence of the stars, the birth of the elements and of the periodic table, and the appearance of solar systems and planets. We look at the emergence of living cells, animals, vertebrates, reptiles, and mammals, leading to the great apes and the appearance of humanity. He also examines tool making, the evolution of language, the invention of agriculture and technology, and the birth of cities. And as he offers these insights into the evolutionary unfolding of our universe, our solar system, and life itself, Morowitz also seeks out the nature of God in the emergent universe, the God posited by Spinoza, Bruno, and Einstein, a God Morowitz argues we can know through a study of the laws of nature. Written by one of our wisest scientists, The Emergence of Everything offers a fascinating new way to look at the universe and the natural world, and it makes an important contribution to the dialogue between science and religion.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (viii, 209 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780198030898 0198030894 9780195135138 019513513X 0195184564 9780195184563 0199881200 9780199881208 1280473320 9781280473326 9786610473328 6610473323