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Natural Products, Complexity, and Evolution

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Phytochemical Diversity and Redundancy in Ecological Interactions

Part of the book series: Recent Advances in Phytochemistry ((RAPT,volume 30))

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As we approach the end of the 20th Century, it is useful to look back and reflect on the important fundamental properties of nature that have been elucidated by the science of our times. Although it is always problematic to make predictions, we nonetheless today can see important studies emerging that center on the questions surrounding the origins of self-organizing systems, the so-called science of complexity.1,2

The more we know, the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Aldous Huxley (1925)

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