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3/28/13 DRAFT Thinking in Systems, © Donella H, Meadows, Dartmouth College CHAPTER TWO THE BASICS (Excerpted from Thinking In Systems, by Dana Meadows) Bathtubs 101 Information contained in nature ... allows us a partial reconstruction of the past The development of the meanders in a river, the increasing complexity of the earths crust ..., are information-storing devices in the same manner that genetic systems are Storing information means increasing the