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How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality
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1: Complexity and criticality. 2: The discovery of self-organized criticality. 3: The sandpile paradigm. 4: Real sandpiles and landscape formation. 5: Earthquakes, starquakes, and solar flares. 6: The Game of Life: complexity is critical. 7: Is life a self-organized critical phenomenon. 8: Mass extinctions and punctuated equilibria in a simple model of evolution. 9: Theory of the punctuated equilibrium model. 10: The brain. 11: On economies and traffic jams. Bibliography. Index
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Metadata
- Authors
- Bak, P., & Weissman, M.
- Venue
- American Journal of Physics
- Published
- 1997-06-01
- Volume
- 65
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 579-580
- ISSN
- 0002-9505 (ISSN-L)
- 1943-2909
- OpenAlex
- W2991668532
- Cited by
- 2,699
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 37.91
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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