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Complexity: The ultimate frontier?
Author(s) -
Morris Simon Conway
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
embo reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.584
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1469-3178
pISSN - 1469-221X
DOI - 10.1038/embor.2011.85
Subject(s) - frontier , limit (mathematics) , biology , evolutionary biology , environmental ethics , political science , philosophy , mathematics , law , mathematical analysis
Complexity remains a slippery concept for explaining living systems. Although the first cells and their descendants must have been much more complex than previously thought, this raises the question of whether there is an upper limit to the complexity of life.