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How does step-by-step actually accomplish its results when the result requires sophisticated and complex global geometry to work?

Alexander's pointed challenge to neo-Darwinian accounts using the bombardier beetle as an example

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Darwinian selective advantage alone cannot explain the appearance of global geometric order in organisms; an internal geometric ordering tendency must act together with selective pressure.
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Alexander's argument that neo-Darwinism needs supplementation by internal dynamical ordering principles

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Step-by-step processconcept0.793
The idea that living structure emerges only through a sequence of small, structure-preserving moves, not by a single grand blueprint.
These step-by-step processes are very simple, virtually unhampered by concepts or by too much thought about the intricacy of design.claim0.792
The commonality underlying all the examples of living process.
What exactly is it that happens, step by step?question0.790
Opens the chapter, following chapter 8's emphasis on step-by-step process.
In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.778
Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
To get a fully adapted world, the same step-by-step principle must be extended to cover all scales, even things a million times bigger than a doorstep.claim0.769
Scalability claim: the principle applies to the largest constructions.
How then — realistically — in the modern world can we get the subtle fine detail of adaptation, variation, and harmony which makes every component slightly different, and yet do it at the break-neck speed of modern giant projects and in the colossal quantities required for the largest projects?question0.764
The central practical question the chapter sets out to answer.
How do you determine these steps which must be taken, and their sequence?question0.762
Practitioner's question about sequence in a living process.
Does this formal creation of geometry really apply to other living processes? Does it apply to the formation of a community? Does it apply to the creation of a human group; does it apply to the brushwork of a delicate painting? Or to the construction of a song played by a flute?question0.762
The open question that the chapter leaves for future investigation across multiple domains