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Tools for thought

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Cape, 1977 - Science - 250 pages

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An accessible introduction to how systems theory and cybernetics can give us tools for understanding processes in the biological and social world written by a biologist. The book that first got me itnerested in undsrstanding complex systems. Read full review

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Contents

Introduction xi
11
Complexity
30
Complex Shapes
38
Copyright

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TitleTools for thought
AuthorConrad Hal Waddington
Editionillustrated
PublisherCape, 1977
Original fromthe University of California
Digitized8 Oct 2009
ISBN0224010778, 9780224010771
Length250 pages
Subjects › 

Models, Theoretical
Philosophy
Science / System Theory
System analysis
System theory
  
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