Innovation is good, fitness is better
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Theoretical physicists have worked hard to understand what makes winners and losers in other systems (i.e. nature, economics, society, software and others.) From their work, we learn about the notion of ‘‘fitness.’’ While the word is most often applied to health, for an individual or a company, this view of fitness is a more abstract notion. The theoretical physicists were working to determine if there were truths that could hold together across various systems.
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