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Índex

1. Complexity and criticality.
2. The discovery of self-organized criticality.
3. The sandpile paradigm.
4. Real sandpiles and landscape formation.
5. Earthquakes, starquakes and solar flares.
6. The “game of life”: Complexity is criticality.
7. Is life a self-organized critical phenomenon?
8. Mass extinctions and punctuated equilibria in a simple model of evolution.
9. Theory of the punctuated equilibrium model.
10. The brain
11. On economics and traffic jams.