This book provides an introduction to the role of diversity in
complex adaptive systems. A complex system--such as an economy or a
tropical ecosystem--consists of interacting adaptive entities that
produce dynamic patterns and structures. Diversity plays a
different role in a complex system than it does in an equilibrium
system, where it often merely produces variation around the mean
for performance measures. In complex adaptive systems, diversity
makes fundamental contributions to system performance.
Scott Page gives a concise primer on how diversity happens, how
it is maintained, and how it affects complex systems. He explains
how diversity underpins system level robustness, allowing for
multiple responses to external shocks and internal adaptations; how
it provides the seeds for large events by creating outliers that
fuel tipping points; and how it drives novelty and innovation. Page
looks at the different kinds of diversity--variations within and
across types, and distinct community compositions and interaction
structures--and covers the evolution of diversity within complex
systems and the factors that determine the amount of maintained
diversity within a system.Provides a concise and accessible
introduction Shows how diversity underpins robustness and fuels
tipping points Covers all types of diversity The essential primer
on diversity in complex adaptive systems
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