Hidden Order — the book the 1998 draft was built on
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Pioneer of genetic algorithms and complex adaptive systems; Santa Fe Institute. Died 2015.
Jonathan Hare's September 1998 draft treatise, Adaptive Systems Analysis, was built on Hidden Order and cited Kauffman and Brian Arthur alongside him. That draft is where Wilson's consilience thesis was independently formulated, before Hare had read Wilson.
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Open →whose nomenclature lost to hisProposed and named quarks; would not give up his own nomenclature
Open →the constructive successorSix importations, each with its defeating condition
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