CHAPTER SEVEN
Networks
OH WHAT A TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE
NETWORKS ARE AN ESSENTIAL INGREDIENT in any complex adaptive system. Without interactions between agents, there can be no complexity. For example, the biological world comprises a massive hierarchy of networks: molecules interact in cells, cells interact in organisms, and organisms interact in ecosystems. The human body is a highly complex collection of networks within networks interacting with other networks, including the brain, nervous system, circulatory system, and immune system. If you took away the network structure of the human body, we would each be nothing more than a small box of ...
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