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DIVERSIFICATION

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Charles François (2004). DIVERSIFICATION, International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(1): 969.
Collection International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics
Year 2004
Vol. (num.) 2(1)
ID ◀ 969 ▶
Object type General information

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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