Bifurcation

topic posted Fri, March 5, 2004 - 8:05 PM by  barnaby
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Why two?

New Scientist ran an aritcle last year about speciation and the author remarked that divergence in species is almost always a bifurcation, and if it's not, one of the lines will quickly go extinct.

From Henon maps to the origin of species, system dynamics tend to proceed in ones and twos. Is there a necessity underlying this?
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  • Re: Bifurcation

    Tue, April 13, 2004 - 11:58 AM
    I'm not sure anyone knows the answer to this question, although it is interesting, eh? I think Quantum systems always choose between binary options as well.

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