DIVERSIFICATION 1)
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The progressive increase of variety in systems
Diversification seems to be a general property of evolving systems. Stellar systems, vegetal and animal species, individual living systems, ecosystems and sociosystems become more differentiated in time.
This seems a result of their development in at least three interconnected aspects:
- original constitution which offers them a specific potential for acquiring variety.
- original constitution which offers them a specific capacity for absorbing increasing inputs of energy.
- environmental conditions which allows for some adaptations or transformations, but inhibits others.
This last condition is the one which establish final limits to diversification.
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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).
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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (2020). Title of the entry. In Charles François (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics (2). Retrieved from www.systemspedia.org/[full/url]
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