# Santa Fe Institute
**Domain:** Complexity Science / Adaptive Systems / Emergence
**Doc Type:** Institution Node
**Maturity:** Developing
**Related:** [[Complex Adaptive Systems]], [[Emergence]], [[Superorganism]], [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]]
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## Definition
The **Santa Fe Institute** is an independent research center devoted to complex systems: systems in which interacting parts generate adaptive, emergent and often nonlinear behavior.
## Corpus Context
Its work supplies a scientific grammar for the corpus’s treatment of [[Superorganism|superorganisms]], networked intelligence, evolutionary search and governance arising from interaction rather than a single command center.
## Directory Context
This institution is indexed in [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]].
## Sources / Provenance
- [Santa Fe Institute](https://www.santafe.edu/)