Dynamical networks constitute a very wide class of complex and adaptive systems. Examples range from ecological prey–predator networks to the gene expression and protein networks constituting the basis of all living creatures as we know it. The brain is probably the most complex of all adaptive dynamical systems and is at the basis of our own identity, in the form of a sophisticated neural network. On a social level we interact through social networks, to give a further example – networks are ubiquitous through the domain of all living creatures.
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Gros, C. (2008). Graph Theory and Small-World Networks. In: Complex and Adaptive Dynamical Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71874-1_1
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