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The provided passages do not explicitly list the evidence the author provides. However, they do indicate that the author, Melanie Mitchell, draws on her work at the Santa Fe Institute and its interdisciplinary strategies [Passage 1, Passage 2].
The passages state that Mitchell brings clarity to the workings of complexity across biological, technological, and social phenomena, seeking general principles or laws that apply to them [Passage 1]. She also explores the relationship between complexity and various fields such as evolution, artificial intelligence, computation, genetics, and information processing [Passage 1]. The passages describe the book as an accessible tour of the sciences of complexity, aiming to explain how large-scale complex, organized, and adaptive behavior emerges from simple interactions [Passage 2].
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on its interdisciplinary strategies, Mitchell brings clarity to the workings of complexity across a broad range of biological, technological, and social phenomena, seeking out the general principles or laws that apply to all of them. She explores as well the relationship between complexity and evolution, artificial intelligence, computation, genetics, information processing, and many other fields.
Title: Complexity: A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell Description: What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of individual neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? What is it that guides self-organizing structures like the immune system, the World Wide Web, the global economy, and the human genome? These are just a few of the fascinating and elusive questions that the science of complexity seeks to answer. In this remarkably accessible and companionable book, leading complex systems…