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What this book knows
Everything from cells to cities obeys the same mathematical scaling laws, revealing hidden order beneath biological and social complexity.
mind-and-cognition
A typical complex system's collective characteristics are usually not manifested in, nor could easily be predicted from, the properties of individual components.
VLA-F469802A-RC-022If you cut a piece out of such a network and scale it up, the resulting network looks just like the original — self-similarity at every level.
VLA-F469802A-RC-108Lietzke brilliantly confirmed the ⅔ prediction for how strength scales with body weight using Olympic weightlifting data plotted logarithmically.
VLA-F469802A-RC-044mortality
Death is an essential feature of life — individuals must die so offspring can propagate new gene combinations, driving natural selection.
VLA-F469802A-RC-074Just as growth is an integral part of life, equally so are aging and death, allowing new adaptations and innovations to emerge and flourish.
VLA-F469802A-RC-144work-as-meaning
Successful cities offer a greater spectrum of job opportunities; successful companies have diversity of products and people with flexibility to reinvent.
VLA-F469802A-RC-121Illuminates
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