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Emergent evolution combines three separate but related claims, whose background, origin, and development I trace in this work: firstly, that evolution is a universal process of change, one which is productive of qualitative novelties, secondly, that qualitative novelty is the emergence in a system of a property not possessed by any of its parts, and thirdly, that reality can be analyzed into levels, each consisting of systems characterized by ...

Emergent evolution combines three separate but related claims, whose background, origin, and development I trace in this work: firstly, that evolution is a universal process of change, one which is productive of qualitative novelties, secondly, that qualitative novelty is the emergence in a system of a property not possessed by any of its parts, and thirdly, that reality can be analyzed into levels, each consisting of systems characterized by ...