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Mark Buchanan NEXUS Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks W.W.Norton 2002 pg 48 SMALL WORLDS - the small-world problem .... all that networks give rise to clusters and cliques just as we find in real social networks. But ordered networks do not have the small world property - it takes way too many steps to get from one point to another. In contrast, networks make for small worlds but worlds without clusters, worlds in which there is no such thing as a group of friends or a community. .... the proper recipe for a social network would have to involve a peculiar mingling of order and randomness in one network.... explore networks in the netherworld between chaos and order. SYNCHRONY

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