CZ:Manual of Style

(Provisional draft)

Boxes

In some cases boxes are needed to highlight side themes or particular key points. To provide clues to meaning it is good practice to use a consistent style among all articles in Citizendium.. the following examples provide color schemes for particular purposes, taken from Life.

Summary of argument and evidence from within Citizendium articles

A living system has the ability to remain for a time in a near steady-state as an organized system. The organization is made possible by the influx of energy and matter and by a more than compensatory efflux of waste (disorder), thereby allowing a far-from-equilibrium state to be maintained.

Or, as in Organism:

The concept of living systems. See Life for a complete explanation. A living system has the informational content and information-processing faculty to remain for a time in a near steady-state as a self-organized system of hierarchical robust modular networks. It works autonomously to offset responses to perturbations, and to reproduce itself, enabled by the influx of energy and matter and by a more than compensatory efflux of waste (disorder), thereby exploiting a far-from-equilibrium state. Finally, it is capable of participating in the transgenerational evolution of the species to which it belongs in adapting to changing environments.