The science of complexity is founded on the repeated finding that important behaviours of different complex adaptive systems can be described by a small number of principles. In spite of growing interest, applications to human social organization have been limited to metaphor and analogy-no theoretical principles have been proposed. In this article a general description of the characteristics of emergence and coherence as a wider pattern of organization leads to the proposal that six general principles, or necessary conditions, underlie "
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