Top-down causation and emergence: Some comments on mechanisms

Interface Focus

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 126-140

  Ellis, George F R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Adaptive selection; Emergence of complexity; Top down causation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860906580     PISSN: 20428898     EISSN: 20428901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2011.0062     Document Type: Review

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