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- April 1965-June 1971 (Creation)
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1 file
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Comprises material relating to a paper Bronowski gave at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Boston, Massachusetts, 27 Dec 1969) and later published, entitled 'New Concepts in the Evolution of Complexity: Stratified Stability and Unbounded Plans'.
Contains: drafts, notes, a summary paper, an "unrevised original" with [notes by Leslie Orgel], and a "revised copy". Also includes: a programme for the meeting (27-29 Dec 1969); annotated copies of papers on 'The Existence of Self-Producing Units' by Leslie Orgel (unpublished, 1965) and 'The Probability of the Existence of a Self-Reproducing Units' by Eugene P Wigner (1967); correspondence with Robert S Cohen on arrangements for Bronowski to give the paper during a session on 'Physics and the Explanation of Life'; letters from Eugene P Wigner sending his comments on the paper (included); correspondence with Ralph Wendell Burhoe (editor of 'Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science') on possibly publishing the paper; and extracts from Bronowski's discussions at 'Institute de la Vie' (1969) marked for possible inclusion in an expansion of 'The Evolution of Complexity'.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Published material was removed from this file - 1 copy of 'Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science' vol. 6, no. 2 (June 1971).