Complex sentence: Their macroscopic behaviour thus displays the spatial and/or temporal scale-invariance characteristic of the critical point of a phase transition, but, unlike the latter, in SOC these features result without needing to tune control parameters to precise values.
Split into simpler sentences: Their macroscopic behaviour displays the spatial and/or temporal scale-invariance characteristic of the critical point of a phase transition. Unlike the latter, however, in SOC these features result without needing to tune control parameters to precise values.