(1) Appearance of the plant above ground after germination in the soil (2) Elongation of the hypocotyl out of the soil into the air followed by the beginning of growth of the epicotyl
Gradual process in which groups develop the roles individual members will play, the norms that govern group behavior, and the decisions the group will validate by consensus
in evolutionary theory, the rise of a species criteria or of an element that cannot be predicted or explained from antecedent conditions The "whole" is a new element that is more and not the sum of its elements
n A specific form of causation in which behavior that was not previously observable is observed, without any obvious cause for the new behavior Sexual behavior, for example, is said to emerge during adolescence In emergent causation some condition in the environment activates a process that was waiting for that condition
the act of emerging the becoming visible; "not a day's difference between the emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow catkins" the gradual beginning or coming forth; "figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece
The emergence of something is the process or event of its coming into existence. the emergence of new democracies in East and Central Europe. In the theory of evolution, the rise of a system that cannot be predicted or explained from antecedent conditions. The British philosopher of science G.H. Lewes (1817-78) distinguished between resultants and emergents phenomena that are predictable from their constituent parts (e.g., a physical mixture of sand and talcum powder) and those that are not (e.g., a chemical compound such as salt, which looks nothing like sodium or chlorine). The evolutionary account of life is a continuous history marked by stages at which fundamentally new forms have appeared. Each new mode of life, though grounded in the conditions of the previous stage, is intelligible only in terms of its own ordering principle. These are thus cases of emergence. In the philosophy of mind, the primary candidates for the status of emergent properties are mental states and events
Properties of a complex physical system are emergent just in case they are neither (i) properties had by any parts of the system taken in isolation nor (ii) resultant of a mere summation of properties of parts of the system <Discussion> <References> Pete Mandik
(i) The adult insect leaving the pupal case (ii) Germination of a seed and the appearance of the shoot The time when the first leaves of the crop plant come through the ground