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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.

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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.