What is complexity?

BioEssays

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1085-1094

  Adami, Christoph ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; ENTROPY; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION SCIENCE; REVIEW; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ENTROPY; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; INFORMATION THEORY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036905397     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.10192     Document Type: Review

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