Living SystemsOffering a detailed analysis of each of the major aspects and characteristics encountered at all seven levels, Living Systems identifies multiple variables of each of 9 matter-energy and information-processing subsystems, the normal and pathological states of these variables, and practical indicators for measuring changes in them. It also specifies cross-level formal identities among the levels and describes the artifacts, machines, or technologies at each level. |
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... producing , is carried out by those monerans , protistans , and plants which contain chlorophyll . It is basic because upon the ability to harness the energy of the sun and produce glucose depends the existence not only of the cells ...
... producing , is carried out by those monerans , protistans , and plants which contain chlorophyll . It is basic because upon the ability to harness the energy of the sun and produce glucose depends the existence not only of the cells ...
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... produce in the needed amounts or cannot produce at all . Human beings , for example , can synthesize vitamin D if their skin is receiving light inputs , but in most environments the light is inadequate for them to synthesize all the ...
... produce in the needed amounts or cannot produce at all . Human beings , for example , can synthesize vitamin D if their skin is receiving light inputs , but in most environments the light is inadequate for them to synthesize all the ...
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... produce arms , planes , or other artifacts for sale on favorable terms to others because it has the necessary components for heavy industry , while the others do not . Among the communist bloc of nations , only the Soviet Union in the ...
... produce arms , planes , or other artifacts for sale on favorable terms to others because it has the necessary components for heavy industry , while the others do not . Among the communist bloc of nations , only the Soviet Union in the ...
Contents
Tables of the Critical Subsystems | xi |
Preface to the First Edition | xxvii |
Outline of Chapters 3 4 and 6 through 12 | xxxviii |
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