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I realise that many distinguished scientists were writing about these topics in the later 40s and 50s, but this article gives Bertalanffy clear priority when GST was obviously an intellectual convergence. Given the controversy a few years back about whether Bertalanffy borrowed ideas from Bogdanov, I think something a little more balanced could be written. Kenneth Boulding's paper 'General Systems Theory: The Skeleton of Science', for example, appeared in 1956. Bertalanffy's General System Theory was 1968. Hardly the seminal text. There's nothing here about criticism of GST. Boulding, later in life, stopped using the term. Parsons was a controversial figure in the social sciences. What about soft systems approaches at Lancaster? Or Boundary Critique (arising from Churchman) or emancipatory systems approaches? There's a need here for a really detailed disambiguation page.