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A definition or brief description of Emergence (biology).

Novel collective phenomena exhibited in living systems stemming from a complex organization of their many constituent parts.

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	~~The phenomenon whereby properties, functions and behaviors appear~~ in living systems ~~though not exhibited by any individual component~~ of ~~the system, and not explainable or predictable from complete understanding the components' properties/behaviors considered in isolation from the system that embeds them~~.		Novel collective phenomena exhibited in living systems stemming from a complex organization of their many constituent parts.