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emergent properties

Features of a system that are due to the way in which its components are structured in relation to each other, rather than to the individual properties of those components. Thus the distinctive characteristics of complex chemical compounds are emergent properties of the way in which the constituent elements are organized, and cannot be explained by the particular properties of those elements taken in isolation.

In biology, ecosystem stability is an emergent property of the interaction between the constituent species, and not a property of the species themselves.



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