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Energy and material flows create autocatalytic loops. These loops increase constraints and mutual information over time.\n\nCore result: ascendency measures the product of total system throughput and the average mutual information in the flow network. Ecosystems develop toward higher ascendency absent major disturbance.\n\nThis framework derives from information theory applied to trophic networks and ecosystem energetics.\n\n## Exact primary works and passages\nPrimary work: Ulanowicz, R.E. (1997). Ecology, the Ascendent Perspective. Columbia University Press, New York.\n\nKey concept from the text: ascendency quantifies organization as constrained flows. The book presents ecology as the study of how systems ascend in organization through process.\n\nRelated passage summaries in secondary sources note that life requires indeterminacy and that autocatalytic cycles drive development.\n\nNo page-specific verbatim quotes were located in public indexes for this response. 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