附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 372-429).
Prologue: the new evolutionary paradigm -- The enchanted loom -- The magic castle -- Black magic -- The synergism hypothesis -- The sorcerer's apprentice -- Conjuring human evolution: the synergistic ape --Conjuring history: does cultural evolution have an arrow? -- The science of history -- Conjuring the future: what can we predict?
摘要:In Nature's Magic, Peter Corning describes how synergy - a vaguely familiar term to many of us - has been a wellspring of creativity in the natural world and has played a key role in the evolution of co-operation and complexity, from physics and chemistry to the latest human technologies.
