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Pettersson, Max

 
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A book which explores the many links between the physical, biological and social sciences.

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" 'Improving Nature?' provides a much needed introduction that many teachers of general biology will find useful...[It] will also interest religious critics of genetic engineering..." The Quarterly Review of Biology

"Biologists interested in levels or organization and in patterns in the evolution of lifeshould carefully consider the ideas presented in this volume." Walter J. Bock, BioScience

"...this brief book serves its purpose if it provokes the reader to develope a more critical synoptic view of the whole shebang. I recommend it." Arthur Falk, The Quarterly Review of Biology

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This unique book ranges across the physical, biological and social sciences in the development of its primary theme, that there are nine major 'integrative levels'. The term was first used by Joseph Needham in 1937 and has been developed by Max Pettersson in a book which explores the many links between the physical, biological and social sciences.

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