Stuart Kauffman
Stuart Kauffman · Science & Medicine
Theoretical biologist known for work on self-organization and complexity in living systems.
1939, California, United States
United States
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Stuart Kauffman is an American theoretical biologist and complexity researcher known for his work on self-organization, Boolean networks, and the spontaneous emergence of order in living systems, developed in part at the Santa Fe Institute. His concepts, such as the 'edge of chaos' and 'adjacent possible,' influenced fields from biology to economics. He is of Jewish heritage and has argued that self-organization complements natural selection in the origin of biological order.
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Theoretical biologist known for work on self-organization and complexity in living systems.
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