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Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity

by John H. Holland · 1995 · 208 pages

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Explains how scientists who study complexity are convinced that certain constant processes are at work in all kinds of unrelated complex systems.

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Subject
science
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 208 pages

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