Development and Evolution surveys and illuminates the key themes of                  rapidly changing fields and areas of controversy that are redefining the theory and                  philosophy of biology. It continues Stanley Salthe's investigation of evolutionary                  theory, begun in his influential book Evolving Hierarchical Systems, while negating                  the implicit philosophical mechanisms of much of that work. Here Salthe attempts to                  reinitiate a theory of biology from the perspective of development rather than from                  that of evolution, recognizing the applicability of general systems thinking to                  biological and social phenomena and pointing toward a non-Darwinian and even a                  postmodern biology.Salthe's intent is nothing less than to provide, with this                  alternative paradigm, a position from which the deconstruction of the                  Bacononian/Cartesian/Newtonian/Darwinian/Comptian tradition becomes possible, while                  at the same time suggesting in its place an organic view predicated upon                  Aristotelian and Hegelian antecedents. In the face of complexity, we must alter our                  view of the universe as inherently ordered and predictable; order develops, but at                  great cost.Explorating of the nature of change in a complex world, Salthe brings                  together such disparate areas as hierarchy theory, information theory, and semiotics                  in illuminating ways as he seeks a mode of answering questions as to the nature of                  complexity and as to how we might derive information from the interactions of the                  parts of a contextualized developing system.Stanley N. Salthe, Professor Emeritus in                  the Department of Biology at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, is                  a Visiting Scientist in Biological Sciences at Binghamton University.

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