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Rise of the digital machine

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  • Mark Pagel

    (Mark Pagel is in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AJ, UK, and the Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA 87501.)

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Genomes and language suggest that biological and social complexity emerge from how information is used, argues Mark Pagel, not from how much of it there is.

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  • Mark Pagel, 2008. "Rise of the digital machine," Nature, Nature, vol. 452(7188), pages 699-699, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:452:y:2008:i:7188:d:10.1038_452699a
    DOI: 10.1038/452699a
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