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Peter A. Corning, Ph.D., was born in Pasadena, California. He received his undergraduate education
at Brown University, after which he served as a naval aviator and as a science writer at Newsweek
magazine for two years before returning to graduate school at New York University to
complete an interdisciplinary social science-life science doctoral degree. He subsequently
won an NIMH post-doctoral fellowship for training and research at the Institute for
Behavioral Genetics at the University of Colorado, following which he taught for seven
years in the Human Biology Program at Stanford University while also holding research
appointments in Stanford's Behavior Genetics Laboratory and Engineering-Economic Systems
Department.
For the past several years, Dr. Corning has served as the
director of the non-profit Institute for the Study of Complex Systems and as a founding
partner of a private consulting firm in Palo Alto California. He has published numerous
research papers and articles over the years, as well as five books -- one of
which was a theoretical monograph on the role of synergy in evolution entitled:
The Synergism Hypothesis: A Theory of Progressive Evolution (McGraw-Hill, 1983).
Dr. Corning is also a member of several professional scientific
organizations and has lectured widely at academic institutions in the U.S., and Europe.
He is Past-President of the International Society for the Systems Sciences,
Treasurer of the International Society for Bioeconomics and a member of the board of
directors of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences. He is also
on the board
of directors of the Epic of Evolution Society, and has been actively contributing member
of the International Society for Human Ethology, the Human Behavior and Evolution Society,
the International Society for Endocytobiology, the European Sociobiological Society, and
the International Association for Cybernetics. In 1996, he was also the recipient of a
research fellowship in evolutionary biology at the Collegium Budapest (an international
institute for advanced study) in Hungary.
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