Cosmic Evolution: The Rise of Complexity in Nature

By E. Chaisson. 2001

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The Broken Past: Fractals in Archaeology (2005, background): “Some have even proposed that “complexification” is a primordial and innate characteristic of systems (Chaisson, 2001).”
Cultural evolution, the postbiological universe and SETI (2003, background): “The maximum age of extraterrestrial intelligence (A) Cosmic evolution (Delsemme 1998; Chaisson 2001) is our guide to the maximum age (A) of an extraterrestrial civilization.”
Changes in the global value of ecosystem services (2014, neutral): “as the ‘‘commodification’’ of nature that this approach supposedly implies (Costanza, 2006; McCauley, 2006) and what others see as the flawed methods and questionable wisdom of aggregating ecosystem services values to larger scales (Chaisson, 2002).”
The evolutionary approach to entropy: Reconciling Georgescu-Roegen's natural philosophy with the maximum entropy framework (2011, positive): “…Georgescu-Roegen’s two notions of time, I expand into the broader systematic conceptual frame firstly proposed by Layzer (1988) and later developed in more detail by Chaisson (2001, 2005), with another application in biology in the theories proposed by Brooks and Wiley (1988) and Salthe (1993).”