systems theory

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Today, developmental systems theory supersedes the dominant, unidirectional causality previously lodged with genes.

From Slate • Mar. 22, 2022

But as it turned out, complex systems theory was indeed what the Santa Fe Institute ended up concentrating on.

From Scientific American • Jun. 6, 2019

So, as Bassett moved to her postdoc at UC Santa Barbara, she added another type of analysis to her study of networks: dynamical systems theory, a way of modeling how network structure changes.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 11, 2019

We were learning about systems theory and the interdependency of ecosystems, how trees communicate and send messages and medicines to other parts of the forest, and draw up water to share with other plants.

From The Guardian • May 4, 2018

Our analogy to calculus is the development of systems theory, chaos math and the much-celebrated fractal.

From Open Source Democracy by Rushkoff, Douglas