Tools Of ThoughtDrawing on general systems theory, operations research, cybernetics, futures research, and catastrophe theory, a distinguished geneticist provides the general reader with tools for perceiving and solving today's complex economic, social, and ecological pr |
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Page 48
4 The Structure of Complex Systems A shape , however complex , can only be a
description of an appearance ; but to begin to understand a thing or a system , we
have to find out about its structure . This will be the subject of this chapter ; in ...
4 The Structure of Complex Systems A shape , however complex , can only be a
description of an appearance ; but to begin to understand a thing or a system , we
have to find out about its structure . This will be the subject of this chapter ; in ...
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The structure cannot be represented by a simple hierarchical tree diagram as in
the drawing 48.1 ; but , as we shall see , one can often show it as a somewhat
modified tree . There are also other ways of making diagrams of these structures
...
The structure cannot be represented by a simple hierarchical tree diagram as in
the drawing 48.1 ; but , as we shall see , one can often show it as a somewhat
modified tree . There are also other ways of making diagrams of these structures
...
Page 123
Before Crick and Watson advanced the hypothesis of the double helical structure
of DNA , no one had considered the possibility that genetic material might not
have a unitary structure , but might be made of two complementary parts . This
was ...
Before Crick and Watson advanced the hypothesis of the double helical structure
of DNA , no one had considered the possibility that genetic material might not
have a unitary structure , but might be made of two complementary parts . This
was ...
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| Title | Tools Of Thought |
| Author | Waddington |
| Illustrated by | Yolanda Sonnabend |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Basic Books, 1977 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 12 Aug 2008 |
| ISBN | 0465086233, 9780465086238 |
| Length | 250 pages |
| Subjects | › Science / General |
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