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Stuart Kauffman

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Stuart A. Kauffman (born 1939) is a theoretical biologist and complex systems researcher whose work has consistently asked a single question from multiple angles: how does order arise in biological systems without central control? Kauffman's answer — developed across four decades, from his PhD work on random Boolean networks in the 1960s through his recent work on the adjacent