− | {{short description|The hypothesis that, in the course of evolution, some entirely new properties, such as mind and consciousness, appear at certain critical points}}
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| '''Emergent evolution''' was the [[hypothesis]] that, in the course of [[evolution]], some entirely new properties, such as mind and [[consciousness]], appear at certain critical points, usually because of an unpredictable rearrangement of the already existing entities. The term was originated by the psychologist [[C. Lloyd Morgan]] in 1922 in his [[Gifford Lectures]] at St. Andrews, which would later be published as the 1923 book ''Emergent Evolution''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://archive.org/details/emergentevolutio00morg_0|title=Emergent evolution : the Gifford lectures, delivered in the University of St. Andrews in the year 1922|last=Morgan|first=Conway Lloyd|date=1923|publisher=New York : Henry Holt and Company ; London : William and Norgate|others=MIT Libraries}}</ref><ref name="Bowler 2001">Bowler, Peter J. (2001). ''Reconciling Science and Religion: The Debate in Early-Twentieth-Century Britain''. University of Chicago Press. pp. 140-142, pp. 376-384. {{ISBN|0-226-06858-7}}</ref> | | '''Emergent evolution''' was the [[hypothesis]] that, in the course of [[evolution]], some entirely new properties, such as mind and [[consciousness]], appear at certain critical points, usually because of an unpredictable rearrangement of the already existing entities. The term was originated by the psychologist [[C. Lloyd Morgan]] in 1922 in his [[Gifford Lectures]] at St. Andrews, which would later be published as the 1923 book ''Emergent Evolution''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://archive.org/details/emergentevolutio00morg_0|title=Emergent evolution : the Gifford lectures, delivered in the University of St. Andrews in the year 1922|last=Morgan|first=Conway Lloyd|date=1923|publisher=New York : Henry Holt and Company ; London : William and Norgate|others=MIT Libraries}}</ref><ref name="Bowler 2001">Bowler, Peter J. (2001). ''Reconciling Science and Religion: The Debate in Early-Twentieth-Century Britain''. University of Chicago Press. pp. 140-142, pp. 376-384. {{ISBN|0-226-06858-7}}</ref> |