# Social Complexity 16- Evolution

In this video we will be taking a brief overview to the process of evolution as it acts on macro scale socio-cultural systems. We describe evolution as a distributed process through which a complex adaptive system response to change within its environment without centralized coordination, and how through this process the system can develop over time to exhibit greater complexity. We will go on to talk about how evolution operates through a number of key strategies, that need to be performed successfully for the process to be effective For full courses, transcriptions & downloads please see: http://www.complexityacademy.io

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2016
- Runtime: 14 min
- By: Complexity Academy
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Social_Complexity_16-_Evolution.webm)
- Licence or status: [CC BY 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Complexity Academy
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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