SOC is universal

Some examples:

• Power-law distribution of earthquake

magnitudes (Gutenberg and Richter 1956)

• Luminosity of quasars ( in Press 1978)

• Sand-pile models (Bak et al. 1987)

• Chemical reactions (e.g., BZ reaction)

• Evolution (Bak and Sneppen 1993)

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