Living Systems

by James Grier Miller

This book has some of the characteristics of an encyclopedia. It presents and analyzes many diverse facts about cells, organs, organisms, groups, organizations, societies, and supranational systems, but it integrates all this knowledge into a single conceptual system. The book is a presentation of the state of current knowledge in all of the sciences relevant to these seven levels of living systems. It also provides a theoretical integration and a methodological approach to quantitative basic research, and how applied research and development can arise from this. The set of concepts presented by the author is powerful and draws attention to all facets of a given problem in a social system.

Genres: Nonfiction, Biology

1102 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1978

Reviews

[Nick Gogerty]

Seriously hardcore TEO (theory of everything). Miller totally gets it but puts in a bit too much excessive details. His brilliance and the thesis are very interesting and deserving of further study as a model for complex adaptive systems.