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The Complexity of Evolution | Wired Science | Wired.com: "The Complexity of Evolution

* By Brandon Keim Email Author
* April 15, 2008 |
* 9:39 am |
* Categories: Uncategorized
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Complexity

Scientists usually study natural selection at a single level, such as genes or individuals or even a population, says biophysical complexity researcher Maya Paczuski — but it takes place at all these levels simultaneously, and what happens at each scale resonates through the web of life in ways we’re just beginning to comprehend.

I talked to Paczuski, founder of the University of Calgary’s Complexity
Science Group, for a recent Wired.com story on the expansion of evolutionary theory to include complexity and emergence. These phenomena don’t replace the classic mechanisms of genetic mutation and natural selection, but work with them; and accompanying this expanded conception of evolution is the multi-scale perspective espoused by
Paczuski."