Logistic escalation as the mechanism of emergence

Ordinary logistics describes growth that is initially exponential but eventually saturates. After reaching saturation, if the evolving, logistic variable changes ifs nature in some slight way, or if a different component becomes significant, a new cycle, or several, of logistic growth appears beyond the first This is not uncommon with multidimensional parameters in complex systems. The resulting behavior is just that of sequential emergence, but now with a simply understood mechanism. The mathematical description of logistic growth is extended to quantitatively characterize these escalations and its application to a variety of evolving systems is considered.