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Founded in 1984, the Santa Fe Institute was the first research institute dedicated to the study of complex adaptive systems. It operates as an independent, nonprofit 501(c)(3) research and education center.
Complexity arises in any system in which many agents interact and adapt to one another and their environments. Examples of these complex systems include the nervous system, the Internet, ecosystems, economies, cities, and civilizations. As individual agents interact and adapt within these systems, evolutionary processes and often surprising "emergent" behaviors arise at the macro level. Complexity science attempts to find common mechanisms that lead to complexity in nominally distinct physical, biological, social, and technological systems.
