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Living systems

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University Press of Colorado, 1995 - Science - 1102 pages

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Seriously hardcore TEO (theory of everything). Miller totally gets it but puts in a bit too much excessive details. His brilliance and the thesis are very interesting and deserving of further study as a model for complex adaptive systems. Read full review

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Contents

Tables of the Critical Subsystems
xi
Preface to the First Edition
xxvii
Outline of Chapters 3 4 and 6 through 12
xxxvii
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Living systems
Living systems
James Grier Miller
Snippet view - 1978
Living systems
Living systems
James Grier Miller
Snippet view - 1978

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About the author (1995)

JAMES GRIER MILLER is Adjunct Professor of Biobehavioral Science and Psychiatry at the University of California at Los Angeles.

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TitleLiving systems
AuthorJames Grier Miller
Editionillustrated
PublisherUniversity Press of Colorado, 1995
ISBN0870813633, 9780870813634
Length1102 pages
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Biological systems
Science / Life Sciences / Biology / General
Science / System Theory
Social Science / General
Social systems
System theory
  
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