事实证明，生物似乎具有自组织的品质。蛋白质折叠。酶相互作用。细胞安排自己形成器官，并且器官安排自己形成一个连贯的个体。个人组织自己以成为人口。人口组织起来制造相干的生物圈。从复杂性理论来看，我们开始对这种自我组织的发生以及它的含义有一种了解。这意味着我们看待进化的重大变化。
(And it turns out, again and again, that living things seem to have a self-organizing quality. Proteins fold. Enzymes interact. Cells arrange themselves to form organs and the organs arrange themselves to form a coherent individual. Individuals organize themselves to make a population. And populations organize themselves to make a coherent biosphere. From complexity theory, we're starting to have a sense of how this self-organization may happen, and what it means. And it implies a major change in how we view evolution.)