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Depew D, Weber B. (1995) ''Darwinism Evolving: Systems Dynamics and the Genealogy of Natural Selection''. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. | [http://www.amazon.com/Darwinism-Evolving-Dynamics-Genealogy-Selection/dp/0262540835 Amazon review and 'Look Inside'.]
Depew D, Weber B. (1995) ''Darwinism Evolving: Systems Dynamics and the Genealogy of Natural Selection''. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. | [http://www.amazon.com/Darwinism-Evolving-Dynamics-Genealogy-Selection/dp/0262540835 Amazon review and 'Look Inside'.]


Kauffman S. (1993) ''The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution''. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Kauffman S. (1993) ''The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | [http://books.google.com/books?id=lZcSpRJz0dgC&dq=kauffman+order&source=gbs_navlinks_s Google Books preview.]


Kauffman S. (1995) ''At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Complexity''. New York: Oxford University Press.
Kauffman S. (1995) ''At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Complexity''. New York: Oxford University Press.

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In biology, self-organization refers to the process whereby order, or pattern, arises spontaneously at more global levels in a living system entirely from the interactions among the lower-level components of the system, the latter the result of local physicochemical processes (Camazine et al. 2001). Some biologists consider self-organization as the fundamental basis of the order that emerges in living systems (Kauffman 1993, 1995).

Self-organization may give rise to a variety of global patterns upon which natural selection can operate to assess fitness to their environment — the interaction of self-organization and natural selection reciprocal in nature and determining of the global pattern of the biological world (Depew and Weber 1995; Batten et al. 2008).

References

Batten D, Salthe S, Boschetti F. (2008) Self-organization Proposes What Natural Selection Disposes. Biological Theory 3(1):17-29.

Camazine S, Deneubourg J-L, Franks NR, Sneyd J, Theraulaz G, Bonabeau E. (2001) Self-Organization in Biological Systems. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. | Google Books preview.

Depew D, Weber B. (1995) Darwinism Evolving: Systems Dynamics and the Genealogy of Natural Selection. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. | Amazon review and 'Look Inside'.

Kauffman S. (1993) The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | Google Books preview.

Kauffman S. (1995) At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Complexity. New York: Oxford University Press.