Chaos Theory and Life

Why the structures found in nature, life in particular, manifest in complex and elaborate patterns? As the mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot wrote: "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, bark of trees are not smooth, and lightning do not move in a straight line."
To answer this and other questions Magazine de Ciencia meets with Dr. Gabriel Mindlin; who graduated in Physics in 1987 at the University of La Plata and doctorate in 1991 at Drexel University. He was a research associate in physics at the Institute for Nonlinear Science at the University of California, professor at the University of Navarra and Associate Research at the National Center for Scientific Research in France. Since 1993 he is working in Argentina as Professor of Physics at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires and is Researcher at CONICET.