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Peter Corning, Ph.D. Esalen CTR Conference Affiliation(s): volution Peter A.Corning, Ph.D., is the Director of the Institute for the Study of Complex Systems in Palo Alto, California. His academic background includes a B.A. from Brown University and a Ph.D. from New York University, as well as post-doctoral training under an NIMH fellowship at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics at the University of Colorado and seven years of teaching and research in Stanford University's Human Biology Program, Behavior Genetics Laboratory and Engineering Economic Systems Department. Dr. Corning was also a recent senior fellow at the Collegium Budapest (Institute for Advanced Study) in Hungary. His other professional affiliations include the International Society for the Systems Sciences, where he is the immediate past-president, and the International Society for Bioeconomics, where he serves as treasurer. In addition, he is a member of the board of directors of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences and the Epic of Evolution Society, as well as an actively participating member of the International Association for Cybernetics, the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES), the International Society for Endocytobiology, the European Sociobiological Society, and the International Society for Human Ethology. He is also on the editorial boards of three scientific journals and is the author of more than 150 scientific papers and book chapters. Most recently he was the organizer of a special symposium at the 2001 HBES meeting on "The Role of Synergy in the Evolution of Complexity" where he presented a paper on "The Emergence of 'Emergence': Now What? (The Answer, in a Word, is Synergy)." He is also the author of two books on synergy in evolution: The Synergism Hypothesis: A Theory of Progressive Evolution (McGraw Hill 1983) and Nature's Magic: Synergy in Evolution and the Fate of Humankind (in press).
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