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born 1943 United States

Lenard Raphael Troncale (born 1943) is an American biologist, systems theorist, Professor Emeritus of Cellular and Molecular Biology, and former Director of the Institute for Advanced Systems Studies at the California State Polytechnic University.

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The overall field of systems science is still in formation.

There is still insufficient integration of the many different strains of systems theory and systems tools.

There is a need to make general systems theory more user friendly.

Troncale L (1985)

We concluded then that it was more reasonable to expect a hierarchy of partial theories than to expect one overarching general theory.

Three unique and still timely aspects of Miller's text Living Systems were his citation of 173 specific ‘cross-level’ hypotheses, his unification of a vast number of phenomena from the biomedical sciences to the social sciences using a consistent taxonomy of seven hierarchical levels and 20 subsystems, and his consistent effort to make systems hypotheses more testable.

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