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What does it mean?
The animal body is a complex system balanced with its environment.
In plain terms
Animals are complex systems that stay balanced with the world.
What can you take from it?
Living bodies are complex systems in equilibrium.

Where it applies

  • studying biology
  • understanding systems

Putting it to work

  • study systems thinking
  • analyze balance

Questions to consider

  • How is your body connected to nature?

Another view

This view ignores individual variation in complexity.

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