Book contents
- Organisms, Agency, and Evolution
- Organisms, Agency, and Evolution
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introducing organisms
- Part I The eclipse of the organism
- 1 Mechanism, reduction and emergence
- 2 Ensemble thinking
- 3 The fractionation of evolution
- Part II Beyond replicator biology
- Part III Situated Darwinism
- References
- Index
2 - Ensemble thinking
Of struggle and abstraction
from Part I - The eclipse of the organism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2015
- Organisms, Agency, and Evolution
- Organisms, Agency, and Evolution
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introducing organisms
- Part I The eclipse of the organism
- 1 Mechanism, reduction and emergence
- 2 Ensemble thinking
- 3 The fractionation of evolution
- Part II Beyond replicator biology
- Part III Situated Darwinism
- References
- Index
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- Organisms, Agency, and Evolution , pp. 43 - 64Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015