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Bruce Jones wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tyger [SMTP:void@internet-zahav.net.il]
> > Subject: are memes born of complex systems?
> >
> > 1. is evolution a feature of complex systems? (thus implying the secondary
> > nature of evolution to the primacy of complexity in nature)
> [BJ]
> From my studies in biology and a take off on the chaos theory ....
> IMHO no.
> Systems tend to get simpler as they progress because the complex has
> been evolved out -- as a whole. The organisms as individuals do tend to get
> more complex because they selfishly require more from their environment.
Is it more? or is it the nature of the niches they find. Could you give some
examples?
>
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