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Old January 17th, 2009, 12:09 PM
James Brody James Brody is offline
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Talking Matt Ridley: Darwin Everywhere but...

Matt Ridley has found chaos. A bit of "regression to the mean" could be a helpful idea...

JimB

"The Natural Order of Things"


"Matt Ridley says that Darwinian selection explains the appearance of seemingly 'designed' complexity throughout the world — not just in biology but in the economy, technology and the arts... Even sophisticated, entropy-defying complex systems are subject to the weather-like vagaries of mathematical chaos — and there Darwin cannot help."

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