With the amount of information in biology growing constantly, it is a challenge for readers to develop a sense of scientific literacy and to become educated consumers. This ...

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What makes a living system a living system? What kind of biological phenomenon is the phenomenon of cognition? These two questions have been frequently considered, but, in this ...

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Makes the most generally applicable insights from general systems theorists and from disciplinarians available to the widest audience possible.

Historical and general aspects; Contemporary systems problems: the social context; Formal theories of general systems: a description of some inductive and deductive approaches ...