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Whole Evolutions, Where Systemic Yoyos Come from

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After introducing the brief history of the concept of systems and the systemic yoyo model in the previous chapter, this chapter looks at the theoretical foundation on why such an intuitive model of general systems holds for each and every system that is either tangible or imaginable.

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Forrest, J.YL. (2018). Whole Evolutions, Where Systemic Yoyos Come from. In: General Systems Theory. IFSR International Series in Systems Science and Systems Engineering, vol 32. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04558-6_14

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