Veloz, TomasHeylighen, FrancisWitkowski, Olaf2024-09-132024-09-132023-02Entropy. Volume 25, Issue 2. February 2023. Article number 2861099-4300https://repositorio.unab.cl/handle/ria/60163Indexación: ScopusAcknowledgments: We would like to thank our authors and reviewers for their dedicated work, to Daniela Flores for her help as assistant editor, and the editorial committee of Entropy for their support in all the phases of the articles’ production. Tomas Veloz and Francis Heylighen were supported by the John Templeton Foundation as part of the project “The Origins of Goal Directedness” (grant ID61733) for developing this Special Issue.Understanding the underlying structure of evolutionary processes is one the most important issues of scientific enquiry of this century. In the twentieth century, scientific thinking witnessed the overwhelming power of the evolutionary paradigm. It not only solidified the foundations of diverse areas, such as cell-biology, ecology, and economics, but also fostered the development of novel mathematical and computational tools to model and simulate how evolutionary processes take place. In addition to the application of the evolutionary paradigm and the discovery of the evolutionary features for processes of diverse nature, there is another interesting aspect which touches upon the emergence of novel evolutionary processes. Namely, the emergence of an evolutionary process requires a complex transition between a prior form where no evolutionary process is undergoing and a posterior form where the evolutionary process has been triggered. Theoretical methods to describe the emergence of evolutionary processes require the consideration of complex systemic notions, such as self-organization, resilience, contex tuality, among others. Therefore, complexity and evolution became intertwined notions: evolution not only leads to but also depends on the development of increasingly complex forms and functions.enScientific EnquiryEvolutionary ProcessesTheoretical MethodsEvolutionArtículoCC BY 4.0 Attribution 4.0 International Deed10.3390/e25020286