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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread
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To: neolib who wrote (18469)12/15/2007 11:25:40 PM
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a satisfyingly understandable theory of how complexity arises.
Natural selection is an adequate theory.
There are many reasons that one creature will be more likely to survive a selection than another. In many cases they will have some quality that the other lacks, and that is a measure of more complexity. It is the competition that favors complexity, in a stable world you have equilibrium and stability, but in a changing environment there is an advantage to those who happen to have more features.

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