BioConcepts

auto-organizationauto-organisation (fr.); Auto-Organisation (ger.)

• The formative process or the increase of complexity of an organization, in as much as this process is not controlled by exterior influences but subject to the system's structure itself or previous systems.
  category self-organization

  1882

  la substance de la lymphe avait un pouvoir d’auto-organisation

  Lister, J. [1881]. La ligature de catgut. In: Chirurgie antiseptique et théorie des germes (OEuvres réunis), hg. v. G. Borginon, Brüssel 1882, 599-627: 626.

  1917

  auto-organization of its [i.e. the human brain’s] nerve centers

  Hermann, E. (1917). An Outline of Physical Education for Primary and Grammar Schools, Junior High Schools and High Schools: 55.

  1935

  Que sont les potentialités d’auto-organisation des territoires de la jeune gastrula?

  Dalcq, A. (1935). L’organisation de l’oeuf chez les chordés: 162.

  1955

  auto-organisation

  Teilhard de Chardin, P. (1955). Le phénomène humain: 338.