Originally trained as a physician, Stuart Kauffman is a biologist and complex systems researcher, and is most widely known for his promotion of self-organization[?] as a factor that is at least as important as Darwinian natural selection in producing the complexity of biological systems and organisms.
Most commonly associated with the Santa Fe Institute[?], a non-profit research institute dedicated to the study of complex systems, where he was one of the faculty in residence from 1986 to 1997. In 1996 he started the BIOS Group, a for-profit company that employs complex systems methodology to attempt to solve business problems.
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