<h2>Complexity and Chaos Summary</h2>
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<li>Complexity is an emerging field, rooted primarily in physics, that considers complex adaptive systems and their evolution, including self-organization.</li>
<li>Complexity has applications in physics and many other disciplines, such as biological evolution.</li>
<li>Chaos is a field that studies systems whose properties depend extremely sensitively on some variables and whose evolution is impossible to predict.</li>
<li>Chaotic systems may be simple or complex.</li>
<li>Studies of chaos have led to methods for understanding and predicting certain chaotic behaviors.</li>
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<h2>Glossary</h2>
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<h3>complexity</h3>
<p>an emerging field devoted to the study of complex systems</p>
<h3>chaos</h3>
<p>word used to describe systems the outcomes of which are extremely sensitive to initial conditions</p>
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