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emergent evolution (uncountable)
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出典:『Wikipedia』 (2010/06/07 19:48 UTC 版)
Emergent evolution is the hypothesis that, in the course of evolution, some entirely new properties, such as life and consciousness, appear at certain critical points, usually because of an unpredictable rearrangement of the already existing entities. The concept has influenced the development of systems theory and complexity theory.