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    • Energy Flows in Low-Entropy Complex Systems 

      Chaisson, Eric J. (MDPI AG, 2015)
      Nature’s many complex systems—physical, biological, and cultural—are islands of low-entropy order within increasingly disordered seas of surrounding, high-entropy chaos. Energy is a principal facilitator of the rising ...
    • Energy rate density as a complexity metric and evolutionary driver 

      Chaisson, Eric J. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
      The proposition that complexity generally increases with evolution seems indisputable. Both developmental and generational changes often display a rise in the number and diversity of properties describing a wide spectrum ...
    • Energy rate density. II. Probing further a new complexity metric 

      Chaisson, Eric J. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)
      Appraisal of the concept of energy rate density continues, as both a potential quantitative metric for complexity studies and a key feature of a unifying hypothesis for the origin and evolution of material systems throughout ...
    • Is Democratic Regulation of High Finance Possible? 

      Desmond, Matthew Stephen (SAGE Publications, 2013)
    • Local Interaction, Multilevel Selection, and Evolutionary Transitions 

      Godfrey-Smith, Peter (MIT Press, 2006)
      Group-structured and neighbor-structured populations are compared, especially in relation to multilevel selection theory and evolutionary transitions. I argue that purely neighbor-structured populations, which can feature ...
    • Systems science and systems thinking for public health: a systematic review of the field 

      Carey, Gemma; Malbon, Eleanor; Carey, Nicole; Joyce, Andrew; Crammond, Brad; Carey, Alan (BMJ Publishing Group, 2015)
      Objectives: This paper reports on findings from a systematic review designed to investigate the state of systems science research in public health. The objectives were to: (1) explore how systems methodologies are being ...
    • A unifying concept for astrobiology 

      Chaisson, Eric J. (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2003)
      Evolution, broadly construed, has become a powerful unifying concept in much of science – not only in the biological evolution of plants and animals, but also in the physical evolution of stars and planets, and the cultural ...