The rules keep having to be changed because of the increase in the complexity of new financial instruments, of the sort that caused the credit crunch.
Another was an increase in the complexity of existing cell types, and astrocytes in particular have undergone numerous changes during human brain evolution.
"We have seen a tenfold increase in the number of genetic tests available over the last decade and an even greater increase in the complexity of those tests".
Comparable trends occur in flowering plants, in which leaves at successive levels of plant maturity often show a progressive increase in the complexity of lobing or toothing.
With the increase in the complexity of clinical care, we need much more than a crash course for developing these competencies.
"This has meant an increase in the complexity of program designs that often extend over several months, geographies and involve various methodologies like action learning".
Size increase has been accompanied by many mechanical requirements that have necessitated a selection for increased efficiency; the result has been a great increase in the complexity of organisms.
Trace fossils, as discussed above, provide independent evidence of accelerated animal diversification and a distinct increase in the complexity of animal behaviour near the beginning of the Cambrian Period.
In addition, the interval saw a rapid increase in the amount of habitats and ecological niches exploited by living things, as well as an increase in the complexity of biological communities.
In Lloyd Morgan's hands it became a doctrine of Emergent Evolution, according to which, with every increase in the complexity of organization, new and unpredictable characteristics emerge into manifest existence.
A half-century ago, Ernst Pulgram wrote in his illustrious "Theory of Names" that "an increase in the complexities of the administrative and social constitution of an ethnic or political group tends to produce, as a rule, an increase in the complexity and rigidity of the onomastic system".
