Etymology

antichaos

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Today it means: A phenomenon whereby disordered systems can spontaneously crystallize into a high degree of order. Full definition →

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The story

From anti- + chaos, coined by Stuart Kauffman in Antichaos and Adaptation (published in Scientific American, August 1991).

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