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Looking back to data, we can see if the consequences are plausible; looking forward to theory, we can see if general principles are suggested.

— John Henry Holland Hidden Order - How Adaptation Builds Complexity (1995)

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Evolution continually innovates, but at each level it conserves the elements that are recombined to yield the innovations.

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