{"product_id":"9780306463822","title":"Contemporary Systems Thinking: A Systems View","description":"\u003ch1\u003eContemporary Systems Thinking: A Systems View\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eBanathy, Bela H.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eBased on a comprehensive review of human and societal evolution  the book develops an approach to conscious, self-guided evolution.  \u003cbr\u003e  In the course of the evolutionary journey of our species, there have  been three seminal events. The first happened some seven million yeas  ago, when our humanoid ancestors entered on the evolutionary scene.  Their journey toward the second crucial event lasted over six million  years when - as the greatest event of our evolutionary history  - \u003cem\u003ehomo sapiens sapiens\u003c\/em\u003e, started the revolutionary process  of cultural evolution. Today, we have arrived at the threshold of the  third major event, `the revolution of conscious evolution,' when it  becomes our responsibility to enter into the evolutionary design space  and guide the evolutionary journey of our species. \u003cbr\u003e  The book tells the story of the first six million years of the journey  in just enough detail to understand how evolution had worked in times  when it was primarily biological, driven by natural selection. With  the human revolution some fifty thousand years ago, with the emergence  of self-reflective consciousness, the evolutionary process transformed  from biological into cultural. From this point on, the book follows  the journey with detailed attention, in order to learn how cultural  evolution works. The book is organized in three parts. Part One  commences with an exposition of a brief history of the evolutionary  idea through time with a focus on a review of the science of general  evolution and specifically social and societal evolution. Next, the  book unfolds the `evolutionary story' of our species from the time  when the first humanoids entered the evolutionary scene to our current  era. Part Two develops a systems view of evolution, explores the ways  and means of how evolution works, characterizes evolutionary  consciousness and develops the idea of conscious evolution. Part Three  builds upon the knowledge developed in the first two parts and sets  forth the key conditions of conscious, self-guided evolution,  elaborating the core condition, which is the acquisition of  evolutionary competence through evolutionary learning. The focus of  this part is on an approach to the design of evolutionary guidance  systems that our families, neighborhoods, communities, organizations,  social and societal systems can use to design the future they aspire  to attain. \u003cbr\u003e  The work is set aside from other statements in three important ways.  It provides: (1) a comprehensive review of how evolution has worked  with a focus on socio-cultural evolution, (2) an explanation of  evolutionary consciousness and the conditions of engaging in conscious  evolution, and (3) most significantly, it develops a detailed approach  and a methodology to the design of evolutionary guidance systems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2000-11-30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9780306463822\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-1-4757-3139-2\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 415\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49937969643660,"sku":"9780306463822","price":152.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9780306463822.jpg?v=1779042266","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9780306463822","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}