Mysterious ways : contingency, emergence, and selection in nature /

What stories should we, and could we, tell about nature, about Earth surface systems and landscapes? According to this book, stories of continuous and ongoing transformative, recursive, emergent evolution, as well as tales of everything, including humans, connected to everything else, told with an e...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Phillips, Jonathan D.
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
Ausgabe:
First edition.
Zusammenfassung:
What stories should we, and could we, tell about nature, about Earth surface systems and landscapes? According to this book, stories of continuous and ongoing transformative, recursive, emergent evolution, as well as tales of everything, including humans, connected to everything else, told with an emphasis on an integrated approach to landscape evolution - stories of complex interactions and coevolution and of historical and geographical and scale contingency.
Umfang:
1 online resource (417 pages)
Anmerkungen:
Includes index.
Zielpublikum:
Specialized.
ISBN:
0-19-775512-7
0-19-775510-0
Schlagworte:
Geomorphology.
Landforms.
Biotic communities.
Soils.
Science.
Earth sciences.
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