Emergent Order: Adaptation Creates Complexity

Author: John H. Holland, USA
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Publish Date: 2000-08-01
Features: Emergence is a landmark masterpiece, a perfect distillation of Holland's profound insights over decades on how adaptive systems evolve, adapt, coalesce, compete, cooperate, and simultaneously create immense diversity and novelty. The principles involved are few in number and yet very general, yet they are exquisitely elegant. Holland's brilliant and dynamic mind leaps from economics to immunology, then to ecology, neurology, and game theory, and then returns. This masterful synthesis of powerful insights sets a milestone for studying how complexity emerges and adapts; all who seek to understand the grand synthesis now called "complexity" will long regard it as a guiding lighthouse.