The weakness of a concept: the complexity of biological systems

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  • F Xavier Niell Castanera Spain

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weakness, complexity, biological systems

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Complexity is a term that can mean many things; this is already said in not so recent books (R. Lewin: ‘Complexity’, Metatemas 41. Tusquets, 1992). For this reason, D. McShea (Biology and Phylosophy 6:303- 324, 1991) says that complexity is an ‘elusive’ term. Among biologists, the complexity of the systems we study and their continuous increase is a shared feeling; but do we know what we are talking about?

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2005-01-20

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Niell Castanera, F. X. (2005). The weakness of a concept: the complexity of biological systems. Encuentros En La Biología, (100), 29–30. Retrieved from https://www.revistas.uma.es/index.php/enbio/article/view/18814

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