Can Whole Lineages And Evolutionary Processes Themselves Be

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• The process itself is to be part of nature.claim0.776
• Parts created during the process of differentiation must become locally unique; otherwise the process is not a living process.claim0.756
  Necessary condition that prevents mechanical mass-production and enforces local adaptation.
• In traditional societies, building processes often preserved and extended wholeness by following natural processes closely.claim0.754
  Historical claim about traditional versus modern building.
• Organismic individuality can be separated from genetics: integration and collective action occur in non-neural systems.finding0.754
  Empirical findings from developmental biology (Manicka & Levin, Lyon et al.) supporting mechanistic basis for individuality independent of genetic determination.
• Living processes are necessarily generative: large precedes small, and the whole creates the conditions for the part.claim0.751
• If the evolution of the natural world follows a step-by-step process in which each step is structure-preserving, then the fifteen properties will appear more and more often, and the degree of life in the wholeness will increase steadily.hypothesis0.748
  Conditional statement linking smooth unfolding to the progressive emergence of the fifteen properties and increased life.
• Modern processes, for the most part, are not morphogenetic.claim0.747
  Asserts that 20th-century processes do not intentionally create living form, unlike the living processes described in chapters 6-17.
• The larger task of making these processes genuinely morphogenetic so that they generate deeper and more coherent living structure—still lies on the horizon.claim0.746