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Nature 452, 699 (10 April 2008) | doi:10.1038/452699a; Published online 9 April 2008
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Mark Pagel1
- Mark Pagel is in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AJ, UK, and the Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA 87501.
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Abstract
Genomes and language suggest that biological and social complexity emerge from how information is used, argues Mark Pagel, not from how much of it there is.
Human societies and multicellular organisms share a puzzling feature. They seem to be under-specified.
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