Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "complexity"
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Energy Flows in Low-Entropy Complex Systems
(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
(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
(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?
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Local Interaction, Multilevel Selection, and Evolutionary Transitions
(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
(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
(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 ...