John H. Holland: Hidden Order
Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity, from Douglas R. Hofstadter’s blurb: “The principles [presented in this book] are few in number, are very general, and are elegant. Holland’s wonderfully lively mind jumps from economics to immunology to ecology to neurology to game theory, and then back. This masterful pulling-together of powerful insights is a landmark for the study of how complexity emerges and adapts; it will serve for a long time to come as a beacon for all who wish to understand the grand synthesis now simply called “complexity.”“