What Is the Butterfly Effect: Chaos Theory Explained
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What Is the Butterfly Effect: Chaos Theory Explained

Corrected by Emir Baycan · on When Notes Fly · 11 July 2026 · View published page ↗

The butterfly effect describes how small changes in initial conditions can produce vastly different outcomes in complex systems.

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Roy Anderson (1992) showed decades before COVID
+Roy Anderson (1991) showed decades before COVID

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Corrected the publication year; Anderson and May's foundational epidemic-chaos work was published in 1991, not 1992. Verified already live on the article; also confirmed no leftover instances in faq, excerpt, meta_description, or seo_keywords.

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