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Hidden Order

How Adaptation Builds Complexity

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By John H. Holland

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On Sale
Sep 3, 1996
Page Count
208 pages
Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN-13
9780201442304

Price

$19.99

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$25.99 CAD

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Trade Paperback

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Explains how scientists who study complexity are convinced that certain constant processes are at work in all kinds of unrelated complex systems.

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John H. Holland

About the Author

John H. Holland holds joint appointments in the Electrical Engineering and Psychology Departments of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is known worldwide as the “father of genetic algorithms” and as one of the deans of “complexity studies” at the Santa Fe Institute. He is the author of the groundbreaking book Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (also from Perseus Books).

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