Importance of diversity. Reconciling natural selection and noncompetitive processes.

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To better understand selection processes in evolutionary systems (ecological to economic to social to artificial systems), the origins and role of diversity are examined in two systems that show increased group functionality (better performance, efficiency, robustness, adaptability, stability, etc.). Diversity was chosen as a clarifying concept, because it appears to have been largely ignored, or misunderstood....

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