This volume contains the papers presented at the International Symposium on "Synergetics - From Microscopic to Macroscopic Order", held at the Wissenschafts- kolleg z~ Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study Berlin), on July 4-8, 1983. Further- more, it contains a contribution of T. Ohta, who unfortunately could not partici- pate in this meeting, on the evolution of mUltigene families. The papers discuss the evolution and the function of ordered structures from small microscopic scales up to large macroscopic dimensions. On the one hand, these structures derive from physical or biological...