Definition of Emergent evolution

1. Noun. The appearance of entirely new properties at certain critical stages in the course of evolution.


Definition of Emergent evolution

1. Noun. The theory that some aspects are observable in a high-level view of a complex system but barely deducible from the description of its components. ¹

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Medical Definition of Emergent evolution

1. Appearance of a property in a complex system e.g., organism that could have been predicted only with difficulty, or perhaps not at all, from a knowledge and understanding of the individual genotype changes taken separately. (05 Mar 2000)

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Literary usage of Emergent evolution

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1. Network Logic: Who Governs in an Interconnected World? by Helen McCarthy, Paul Miller, Paul Skidmore (2004)
"11 WM Wheeler, emergent evolution and the Development of Societies (New York: W\AT Norton, 1928). 12 Ibid. 13 5 Johnson, Emergence: the connected lives of ..."

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