Stuart Kauffman

Originally trained as a physician, Stuart Kauffman is a biologist and complex systems researcher, and is most widely known for his promotion of self-organization[?] as a factor that is at least as important as Darwinian natural selection in producing the complexity of biological systems and organisms.

Most commonly associated with the Santa Fe Institute[?], a non-profit research institute dedicated to the study of complex systems, where he was one of the faculty in residence from 1986 to 1997. In 1996 he started the BIOS Group, a for-profit company that employs complex systems methodology to attempt to solve business problems.

Books

• Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution (1993) Oxford University Press. Technical text. ISBN 0195079515
• At Home in the Universe (1995) Oxford University Press. Popular treatment of many of the ideas in Origins. ISBN 0195111303
• Investigations (2000) Oxford University Press. Speculations involving a possible definition of life. ISBN 0195121058

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