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Complexity: A Guided Tour (1st Edition) by Melanie Mitchell Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2009 ISBN-10: 0-19-512441-3 / 0195124413 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-512441-5 / 9780195124415 What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of individual neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? What is it that guides self-organizing structures like the immune system, the World Wide Web, th |