Eieren, straalmotoren en paddestoelen
Kauffman, S.
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- Author
- Kauffman, S.
- Publisher
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- ISBN
- 9789025407209
- Language
- Dutch
- Condition notes
- 1996, 349 pp, paperback
- Category
- Textbooks › Science
About this book
What natural laws govern life and evolution? The prevailing paradigm in biology is that of natural selection, but according to Stuart Kauffman, that is only part of the story. In ‘Eggs, jet engines and mushrooms’, he describes his quest to understand the meaning of order in nature – a ‘free order’ that has been present ever since life emerged from a soup of molecules, right through to the global civilisation whose first signs are now becoming visible. Whether it concerns the organisation of a cell, an ecosystem or an economic market, the Darwinian explanation falls short in many respects. In Kauffman’s theory, our existence in the world is not an extremely improbable coincidence, but the inevitable result of a deep-seated order that we are only now beginning to understand.