 | Lewis Mumford - 1961 - 788 páginas
...and William Morton Wheeler used that concept. In emergent evolution, the introduction of a new factor does not just add to the existing mass, but produces...a new configuration, which alters its properties. Potentialities that could not be recognized in the pre-emergent stage, like the possibility of organic... | |
 | Steven Johnson - 2002 - 290 páginas
...and William Morton Wheeler used that concept. In emergent evolution, the introduction of a new factor does not just add to the existing mass, but produces...a new configuration, which alters its properties. Potentialities that could not be recognized in the pre-emergent stage, like the possibility of organic... | |
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... period of urbanization, cities contained only a small fraction of mankind. The city came as a definite emergent in the paleo-neolithic community: an emergent in the definite sense that Lloyd Morgan and William Morton Wheeler used that concept. In... 