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Electronic supplementary material is available online at https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4324055. Bernat Corominas-Murtra, Luís F. Seoane, Ricard Solé; Zipf’s Law, unbounded complexity and open-ended evolution. J R Soc Interface 1 December 2018; 15 (149): 20180395. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2018.0395 Download citation file: A major problem for evolutionary theory is understanding the so-called open-ended nature of evolutionary change, from its definition to its origins. Open-ended evolution (OEE) refers to the unbounded increase in complexity that seems to characterize evolution on multiple scales. This property seems to be a characteristic feature of biological and technological evolution and is strongly tied to the generative potential associated with combinatorics, which allows the system to grow and expand their available state spaces. Interestingly, many complex systems presumably displaying OEE, from language to proteins, share a common statistical property: the prese

Electronic supplementary material is available online at https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4324055. Bernat Corominas-Murtra, Luís F. Seoane, Ricard Solé; Zipf’s Law, unbounded complexity and open-ended evolution. J R Soc Interface 1 December 2018; 15 (149): 20180395. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2018.0395 Download citation file: A major problem for evolutionary theory is understanding the so-called open-ended nature of evolutionary change, from its definition to its origins. Open-ended evolution (OEE) refers to the unbounded increase in complexity that seems to characterize evolution on