Source: The Dragons of Eden (1977), Chapter 7, “Lovers and Madmen” (p. 183)
“A design principle based on the redundancy of functions rather than on the redundancy of parts (Emery, 1967) characterized the underlying organizational philosophy which tended to develop multiple skills in the individual and immensely increase the response repertoire of the group.”
The evolution of socio-technical systems, (1981)
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