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International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics

2nd Edition, as published by Charles François 2004 Presented by the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science Vienna for public access.

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The International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics was first edited and published by the system scientist Charles François in 1997. The online version that is provided here was based on the 2nd edition in 2004. It was uploaded and gifted to the center by ASC president Michael Lissack in 2019; the BCSSS purchased the rights for the re-publication of this volume in 200?. In 2018, the original editor expressed his wish to pass on the stewardship over the maintenance and further development of the encyclopedia to the Bertalanffy Center. In the future, the BCSSS seeks to further develop the encyclopedia by open collaboration within the systems sciences. Until the center has found and been able to implement an adequate technical solution for this, the static website is made accessible for the benefit of public scholarship and education.

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HOMEOBOX COMPLEX 5)

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A distinctive DNA segment, consisting of some 60 amino acids, which is used by some group of genes to determine the basic body plan of a living organism (adapted from P. CORNING, 1988 b, p. 10).

The homeobox is a very archaic biological feature that has been conserved through the whole of evolution. It is present in the fruit fly (Drosophila) as well as in the human being.

According to CORNING it is "a microscopic example of a combination of labor that is oriented to the production of a combined emergent result"(See also De Robertis et al, 1990)

It is thus, from the systemic viewpoint, also an example of emergence of complexity through synergy.

The human genome research is of course closely related to the practical significance of the Homeobox Complex.

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  • 1) General information
  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
  • 4) Human sciences
  • 5) Discipline oriented

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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).

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