00000caa a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773861817206 Buklod 20230619085743.0 j|||||||||||||| | ta 170930s1990 xx r |||| u|eng d (iLib)UPBAG-00008224761 BAG rda eng Circulation-Monograph Benzon, William L. author. Why natural selection leads to complexity William L. Benzon and David G. Hays. 1990. pages 33-40 28cm Photocopy. This document has been provided by EAPI as part of its SUAN Information Support Service. The goal of this service is to make current literature relating to human ecology and agroecosystems research available to scientists participating in the Southeast Asian Universities Agroecosystem Network. Partial funding for this service is provided by a Ford Foundation grant to the East-West Center. Includes bibliographical references (page 40). While science has accepted biological evolution through natural selection, there is no generally agreed explanation for why evolution leads to ever more complex organisms. Evolution yields organismic complexity because the universe is, in its very fabric, inherently complex, as suggested by Ilya Prigogine's work on dissipative structures. Because the universe is complex, increments in organismic complexity yield survival benefits: (1) more efficient extraction of energy and matter, (2) more flexible response to vicissitudes, (3) more effective search. J.J. Gibson's ecological psychology provides a clue to the advantages of sophisticated information processing while the lore of computational theory suggests that a complex computer is needed efficiently to perform complex computations (i.e. sophisticated information processing). Evolution. Hays, David G. author. East-West Environment and Policy Institute. Southeast Asian Universities Agroecosystem Network. SUAN Information Support Service. Ford Foundation. East-West Center. Journal of Social and Biological Structures (1990) : pages 33-40. Vol. 13, No. 1. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN Circulation- Monograph Analytics