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Origin(s) of Design in Nature

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    Chapter 1 The Initial Low Gravitational Entropy of the Universe as the Origin of Design in Nature
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    Chapter 2 On the Biological Origin of Design in Nature
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    Chapter 3 Creativity in Nature
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    Chapter 4 Plato’s Pythagorean Cosmos: Order and Chaos in the Intelligence of Natural Design
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    Chapter 5 War or Peace? Huxley and Kropotkin’s Battle Over the Design of Virtue
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    Chapter 6 Free Will in God’s Dice Game
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    Chapter 7 Does Biology Need a New Theory of Explanation? A Biological Perspective on Kant’s Critique of Teleological Judgment
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    Chapter 8 Pragmatism, Inquiry, and Design: A Dynamic Approach
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    Chapter 9 The Design of Morality
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    Chapter 10 The Best Mislaid Plans: A Religious Approach to the Question of the Planning of Reality
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    Chapter 11 Judaism and Evolution in Four Dimensions: Biological, Spiritual, Cultural, and Intellectual
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    Chapter 12 Random Natural Laws Versus Direct Trends: A Cabbalistic Interpretation Based on the Teachings of Rabbi Kook
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    Chapter 13 The Identity of Designer and Design
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    Chapter 14 In the Beginning There Was Lightning: Fulguro-Genesis and Eduard Loewenthal’s Religion of Religions
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    Chapter 15 Structure and Creativeness: A Reinterpretation of the Neo-Confucian Binary Category Li 理 and Qi 氣
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    Chapter 16 Evolution: The Biblical Account of Life’s Development
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    Chapter 17 Design and Disorder: Gould, Adaptationism and Evolutionary Psychiatry
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    Chapter 18 Architecture and Design Among Plants and Animals: Convergent and Divergent Developmental Mechanisms
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    Chapter 19 The Lingual Taste Papillae: A Delicate and Complicated Nature’s Design for Taste Modalities Perception
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    Chapter 20 Divine Genesis, Evolution, and Astrobiology
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    Chapter 21 Consistent Patterns of Statistical Distributions in Natural Ecological Communities: Lake Phytoplankton
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    Chapter 22 Coupling of Growth, Differentiation and Morphogenesis: An Integrated Approach to Design in Embryogenesis
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    Chapter 23 Interior Cell Design: VICKZ Proteins Mediate RNA Localization and Cell Function
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    Chapter 24 Organic Codes and the Origin of Language
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    Chapter 25 RETRACTED CHAPTER: Mechano-Sensing in Embryonic Biochemical and Morphologic Design: Evolutionary Perspectives on Emergence of Primary Organisms
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    Chapter 26 A Response to Darwin’s Dilemma: A-PR Cycles and the Origin of Design in Nature
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    Chapter 27 The Synthetic Approach in Biology: Epistemic Notes for Synthetic Biology
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    Chapter 28 Necessity and Freedom in Designs of Nature
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    Chapter 29 Not All Designs Are Created Equal
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    Chapter 30 Design of Living Systems in the Information Age: Brain, Creativity, and the Environment
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    Chapter 31 Technological Design of Natural Exemplars
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    Chapter 32 Trouble for Natural Design
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    Chapter 33 Imagining a Theory of Everything for Adaptive Systems
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    Chapter 34 Hidden Order and the Origin of Complex Structures
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    Chapter 35 What the Fine-Tuning Argument Shows (and Doesn’t Show)
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    Chapter 36 The Continuous Increase in the Complexity of the Designed Structures of the Universe Is Described as Movement Against Maximum Entropy
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    Chapter 37 Law, Order, and Probability
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    Chapter 38 Design and Self-Organization
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    Chapter 39 Development of Organisms as Self-Organization of Mechanically Stressed Macroscopic Designs
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    Chapter 40 Playing God: The Historical Motivations of Artificial Life
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    Chapter 41 The Socially Constructed Natural Origins of Self-Organization
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    Chapter 42 Complex Epidemics, Simplistic Tools: The Failure of AIDS Policy in Africa
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    Chapter 43 Summary and Conclusion of Origin(s) of Design in Nature: A Fresh, Interdisciplinary Look at How Design Emerges in Complex Systems, Especially Life
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    Chapter 44 Erratum
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    Chapter 45 Retraction Note: Mechano-Sensing in Embryonic Biochemical and Morphologic Design: Evolutionary Perspectives on Emergence of Primary Organisms
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Title
Origin(s) of Design in Nature
Published by
Springer, Dordrecht, January 2012
DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-4156-0
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978-9-40-074155-3, 978-9-40-074156-0
Editors

Liz Swan, Richard Gordon, Joseph Seckbach

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Country Count As %
United States 1 3%
Portugal 1 3%
Canada 1 3%
Unknown 35 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 8 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 21%
Professor 6 16%
Student > Master 6 16%
Student > Bachelor 4 11%
Other 5 13%
Unknown 1 3%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 21%
Physics and Astronomy 4 11%
Engineering 4 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 8%
Computer Science 3 8%
Other 15 39%
Unknown 1 3%