General System Theory: Foundations, Development, ApplicationsAn attempt to formulate common laws that apply to virtually every scientific field, this conceptual approach has had a profound impact on such widely diverse disciplines as biology, economics, psychology, and demography. |
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... biology , the neces- sity of " organismic " biology has become apparent , as this writer had advocated for some 40 years . The concern of biology is not only at the physico - chemical or molecular level but at the higher levels of ...
... biology , the neces- sity of " organismic " biology has become apparent , as this writer had advocated for some 40 years . The concern of biology is not only at the physico - chemical or molecular level but at the higher levels of ...
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... biology " has been re - emphasized by leading Ameri- can biologists ( Dubos , 1964 , 1967 ; Dobzhansky , 1966 ; Commoner , 1961 ) without , however , mentioning the writer's much earlier work , although this is duly recognized in the ...
... biology " has been re - emphasized by leading Ameri- can biologists ( Dubos , 1964 , 1967 ; Dobzhansky , 1966 ; Commoner , 1961 ) without , however , mentioning the writer's much earlier work , although this is duly recognized in the ...
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... biology and the behavioral and social sciences , are essentially multivariable problems for which new conceptual tools are needed . Warren Weaver ( 1948 ) , co - founder of information theory , has expressed this in an often - quoted ...
... biology and the behavioral and social sciences , are essentially multivariable problems for which new conceptual tools are needed . Warren Weaver ( 1948 ) , co - founder of information theory , has expressed this in an often - quoted ...
Contents
Introduction | 8 |
On the History of Systems Theory | 10 |
Trends in Systems Theory | 17 |
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