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Emergent evolution combines three separate but related claims, whose background, origin, and development I trace in this work: firstly, that evolution is a universal process of change, one which is productive of qualitative novelties; secondly, that qualitative novelty is the emergence in a system of a property not possessed by any of its parts; and thirdly, that reality can be analyzed into levels, each consisting of systems characterized by significant emergent properties.
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Blitz, D. (1992). Introduction. In: Emergent Evolution. Episteme, vol 19. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8042-7_1
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