Expansions: a study in the unity of science.
This article attempts to establish some of the general laws relating to spatial aspects of general systems theory, i.e., how forces, impulses, and ideas (matter, energy, and information) spread, diversify, and compete with one another, and how the earlier history of observed structures can be traced by backtracking. Principles that have long been accepted for nonliving and low-level living systems are recognized in the activities of individual human beings, groups, and supranational systems.
D000818:Animals; D004328:Drive; D006803:Human Development; D006801:Humans; D007804:Language Development; D008954:Models, Biological; D010802:Phylogeny; D011057:Politics; D012586:Science; D012922:Social Change; D013598:Systems Theory