Complexity science is largely the brainchild of a multidisciplinary group of scientists working together at the Santa Fe Institute, a nonprofit research and education center. Much of the original research focused on complex adaptive systems, or CAS, which are systems that share a variety of characteristics. A partial list includes the fact that CAS are made up of smaller components, sometimes referred to as “agents”; they tend to behave in a nonlinear fashion because agents regularly react and interact with each other; they are self-organizing and adaptive; and they tend to exist at what some call “the edge of chaos” – that is, in a realm between high levels of order and utter anarchy.