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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Modularity
    sub title: understanding the development and evolution of natural complex systems
  name:
    name part: Callebaut, Werner.
  name:
    name part: Rasskin-Gutman, Diego.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    place:
      place term: Cambridge, Mass
    publisher: MIT Press
    date issued: ©2005
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 455 pages) : illustrations.
  abstract: Experts from diverse fields, including artificial life, cognitive science, economics, developmental and evolutionary biology, and the arts, discuss modularity.Modularity--the attempt to understand systems as integrations of partially independent and interacting units--is today a dominant theme in the life sciences, cognitive science, and computer science. The concept goes back at least implicitly to the Scientific (or Copernican) Revolution, and can be found behind later theories of phrenology, physiology, and genetics; moreover, art, engineering, and mathematics rely on modular design principles. This collection broadens the scientific discussion of modularity by bringing together experts from a variety of disciplines, including artificial life, cognitive science, economics, evolutionary computation, developmental and evolutionary biology, linguistics, mathematics, morphology, paleontology, physics, theoretical chemistry, philosophy, and the arts.The contributors debate and compare the uses of modularity, discussing the different disciplinary contexts of "modular thinking" in general (including hierarchical organization, near-decomposability, quasi-independence, and recursion) or of more specialized concepts (including character complex, gene family, encapsulation, and mosaic evolution); what modules are, why and how they develop and evolve, and the implication for the research agenda in the disciplines involved; and how to bring about useful cross-disciplinary knowledge transfer on the topic. The book includes a foreword by the late Herbert A. Simon addressing the role of near-decomposability in understanding complex systems.
  note: edited by Werner Callebaut and Diego Rasskin-Gutman ; foreword by Herbert A. Simon.
  subject:
    topic: Evolution (Biology)
  subject:
    topic: Natural selection
  subject:
    topic: Chaotic behavior in systems
  subject:
    topic: Modularity (Psychology)
  subject:
    topic: BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/Evolution
  subject:
    topic: BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/General
  classification: QH366.2 .M63 2005eb
  classification: 576.8
  identifier: 9780262269698
  identifier: 0262269694
  identifier: 1423729919
  identifier: 9781423729914
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: OCoLC-P
    record creation date: 051018
    record change date: 20221121162347.5
    record identifier: in00004600936
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng