Alex Ryan's Diagram

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I have spent a lot of time on this blog discussing evolution and emergence, the distinction between the two and the interplay thereof.  All the while I have wished that I had a diagram like like  Alex Ryan’s above (posted with permission), as it does much better then the proverbial thousand words.

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One Response to “Alex Ryan's Diagram”

  1. [...] careful readers of this blog will note, I’ve been obsessed with Alex Ryan’s visualization of the way new levels of organization come into being (e.g. atoms –> molecules –> [...]

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