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International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics

2nd Edition, as published by Charles François 2004 Presented by the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science Vienna for public access.

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The International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics was first edited and published by the system scientist Charles François in 1997. The online version that is provided here was based on the 2nd edition in 2004. It was uploaded and gifted to the center by ASC president Michael Lissack in 2019; the BCSSS purchased the rights for the re-publication of this volume in 200?. In 2018, the original editor expressed his wish to pass on the stewardship over the maintenance and further development of the encyclopedia to the Bertalanffy Center. In the future, the BCSSS seeks to further develop the encyclopedia by open collaboration within the systems sciences. Until the center has found and been able to implement an adequate technical solution for this, the static website is made accessible for the benefit of public scholarship and education.

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A set of ordered and interacting segmentation genes which commands the also ordered differenciation and development of animals.

Such genes are called homoetic because each one is associated with some specific way of biological structuration, as for example produce a leg.

Homeoboxes are a very general feature of biological organization, from small invertebrates to insects and vertebrates, conveying a quite similar basic plan. They provide potential positional information.

Stephen DAY writes: "The amount of positional information builds up during the development of the embryo. Eventually the positional information is so complex that very small groups of cells, destined to become a particular part of the body, can be distinguished" (1999, p.4)

The homeobox is thus a basic "social organizer" proper to complex biological systems. A parallelism with pheromones in insect societies and values in human societies could be usefully researched.

Note: Some authors write "Homoeobox" in lieu of "homoebox" or " homeobox"

Homeoboxes, as specific ordered sequences of bases in developmental genes sequences, are now being closely studied (E. H. DAVIDSON & al, 1995).

It would be interesting to try to investigate the possible uses of this model to study psycho-sociological constraints in the growth and stabilization of all kind of societies, including the human ones.

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