More is different with a vengeance

Michael P H Stumpf

doi:10.1016/j.cels.2022.07.003

More is different with a vengeance

Cell Syst. 2022 Aug 17;13(8):594-597. doi: 10.1016/j.cels.2022.07.003.

Author

Michael P H Stumpf¹

Affiliation

¹ Melbourne Integrative Genomics, University of Melbourne, Australia; School of BioScience, University of Melbourne, Australia; School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Australia. Electronic address: mstumpf@unimelb.edu.au.

PMID: 35981512
DOI: 10.1016/j.cels.2022.07.003

Abstract

In his 1972 landmark paper "More is Different," Philip W. Anderson established "complexity" as a fundamentally important subject of inquiry. He highlighted the profound limitations of reductionist approaches in understanding nature's complexity, and he set in motion new lines of investigation that have, among other things, led to systems biology.

MeSH terms

Humans
Male
Systems Biology*