单词 | emergent evolution |
释义 | > as lemmasemergent evolution c. Science. That emerges unpredictably as the result of an evolutionary process, spec. in emergent evolution. ΚΠ 1915 Scientia XVIII. 255 The emergence of anything new in the world... If intrinsic structure and external conditions are..strictly similar, nothing new emerges. But if with like intrinsic structure the conditions are different, or vice versa, something new may emerge. And if genuinely emergent (as contrasted with resultant in accordance with G. H. Lewes's distinction) it may be unpredictable. 1923 C. L. Morgan (title) Emergent evolution. 1923 C. L. Morgan Emergent Evolution i. 1 Under what I here call emergent evolution stress is laid on this incoming of the new. 1928 Observer 1 June 5/3 That growing body of thought called ‘Emergent Evolution’. 1932 Discovery Apr. 108/2 One of the salient features in recent aetiology (i.e. evolution lore) has been the recognition of the more or less open secret expressed in the term ‘emergent evolution’... It has become evident that the Ascent of Life has been a succession of ‘emergent’ steps, novelties that are creative rather than ‘additive’, such as birds from ancestral reptiles. < as lemmas |
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