Just as organic species evolve toward the use of greater densities of a wider variety of free-energy sources in their environment, so human societies develop to access, store, and use in greater densities larger quantities of free energy through the ongoing improvement of their technologies. As a consequence societies, the same as natural systems, tend to grow larger in size, develop more intricate relations among their diverse components, and create more massive and flexible modes of interaction among them.


p. 125. - Evolution: the general theory (1996)

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Just as organic species evolve toward the use of greater densities of a wider variety of free-energy sources in their environment, so human societies ...

Just as organic species evolve toward the use of greater densities of a wider variety of free-energy sources in their environment, so human societies ...

Just as organic species evolve toward the use of greater densities of a wider variety of free-energy sources in their environment, so human societies ...

Just as organic species evolve toward the use of greater densities of a wider variety of free-energy sources in their environment, so human societies ...