"A biological concept according to which living beings organization is emergent from physical and biological processes, but different in kind. Replaced vitalism" (Francois)

"... the philosophical perspective which views the universe and its parts as organic wholes and - either by analogy or literally - as living organisms. It can be synonymous with holism." "Within modern-day biological sciences organicism is the approach that stresses the organization (particularly the self-organizing properties), rather than the composition, of organisms." (Wikipedia)

"the theory that the organism is different from the sum of its parts and that it depends on the structural arrangement of the parts." (Sawyer)

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