Kineman, J. 1997. Theory of Autevolution

Toward a Special and General Theory of Autevolution

John Jay Kineman
1991/1997

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Annotated Table of Contents

Abstract

Foreword (Foreword to this edition
of the paper)

Introduction (the 1988 Chapman
conference on the Gaia hypothesis, strong and weak Gaia)

The Gaia worldview (metaphor
and the need for theoretical foundations)

The basis for Autevolution (worldview
and founding assumptions)

Epistemology-I (a conceptual
model for science, information, and evolution)

Figure 1 (punctuated stability
model based on paradox)

Epistemology-II (proposed criteria
for evaluating worldviews)

Discussion-I (teleology and
the origin of novelty)

Discussion-II (principle of
uncertainty in ecology and evolution)

Discussion-III (cultural perspectives)

Conclusions (some of the main
points)

Footnotes (clarification of
terms and concepts)

References (a useful bibliography
through 1991)

Chapter references (table of
contents from Scientists on Gaia)

Revised and reprinted from: Kineman, John
Jay. 1991. “Gaia: hypothesis or worldview?” Paper delivered
at the American Geophysical Union annual Chapman Conference, panel
on epistemology, March, 1988, San Diego, California. Chapter 7
In: Schneider, S. H., and P. J. Boston (eds). 1991. Scientists
on Gaia. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 433p.

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