Mindful Universe formatIsbn:Hardcover 9783642180750 this volume furthers the understanding 9783110089400 this volume furthers the understanding of the economic context in which crop breeders make use of genetic resources and their diversity in the Spring of 1980 The classical mechanistic idea of nature that prevailed in science during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was an essentially mindless conception: the physically described aspects of nature were asserted to be completely determined by prior physically described aspects alone During the twentieth century the classical concepts were found to be inadequate