Santa Fe Institute

Overview

Since its founding in 1984, the Santa Fe Institute has devoted itself to creating a unique scientific research community, where quantitative methods and the tools and principles of many disciplines are brought to bear on significant questions for science and society.

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Research News

What drives the nonliving to living, the simple to complex, and the instinctual to intellectual? May 15, 2013 -

An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education explores on the intersection of philosophy and ...

Which came first: Farming or private property? Wrong question, suggests new paper May 15, 2013 -

It has long been assumed that the advent of farming 12 millennia ago led to ...

What to do with 'big data' when we don't yet have a theory of complex systems May 15, 2013 -

A column in Scientific American by SFI Distinguished Professor Geoffrey West makes the case for ...

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