“Now it is obvious [handwaving] that according to the intent of nature [so clear, eh?], sexual union in animals is ordained to the act of generation”: not so—biology is chock full of systems & organs serving multiple purposes. It’s a general pattern: h
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#Degeneracy - the ability of structurally different elements of a system to perform the same function #Bow_tie - ordered and recurrent #control_system_architecture of complex networks providing balance between efficiency, robustness and evolvability. htt
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RT @mikebarnkob: Reading about bow-tie structures in biology - very cool concept that explains robustness in complex systems. https://t.co/…
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Reading about bow-tie structures in biology - very cool concept that explains robustness in complex systems. https://t.co/Jm7FRblsB9 https://t.co/hg1fr6ZXvo