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Complexity science: an introduction: edited by M. A. Peletier, R. A. van Santen, and E. Steur, Singapore, World Scientific, 2019, 428 pp., £120.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-981-3239-59-3. Scope: edited book. However, the actual context, regarding "darwinism-evolution", is revealed (albeit unexpectedly) in the very first chapter by Dr Nicolis; in that chapter, he presents the algorithmic Complexity, a view of classical Information Theory suggested by Kolmogorov & Chaitin. [Extracted from the article]

Introduction to the theory of complex systems: by Stefan Thurner, Rudolf Hanel and Peter Klimek, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018, 431 pp., £49.99 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-19-882193-9. Introduction to the theory of complex systems, by Stefan Thurner, Rudolf Hanel and Peter Klimek Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018, 431 pp., £49.99 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-19-882193-9. There follow highly detailed and carefully structured chapters on probability/stochastics, scaling, networks, evolutionary processes, and statistical mechanics/information theory. [Extracted from the article]