5 papers
Three Centuries of the Laws of Cricket Reveal Core Principles of the Evolution of Regulatory Mechanisms
Daniel Chia, Hyejin Youn, Jonny Singer +5
Rules, regulations, and regulatory systems are central to societies, institutions, and organisms, yet surprisingly little is known about their evolution over long timescales. The L…
How is gene-regulatory evolution affected by cell-to-cell variability?
Leonardo Ivan Estrella Dzib, James Holehouse
The evolutionary origins of structural features in reconstructed gene-regulatory networks (GRNs) remain poorly understood, especially given the random aspects of gene expression. H…
Scaling Laws for Function Diversity and Specialization Across Socioeconomic and Biological Complex Systems
Vicky Chuqiao Yang, James Holehouse, Hyejin Youn +4
Function diversity, the range of tasks individuals perform, and specialization, the distribution of function abundances, are fundamental to complex adaptive systems. In the absence…
A generative model of function growth explains hidden self-similarities across biological and social systems
James Holehouse, S. Redner, Vicky Chuqiao Yang +5
From genomes and ecosystems to bureaucracies and cities, the growth of complex systems occurs by adding new types of functions and expanding existing ones. We present a simple gene…
A Century of Evolution in the Complexity of the United States Legal Code
Dawoon Jeong, James Holehouse, Jisung Yoon +3
As societies confront increasingly complex regulatory demands in domains such as digital governance, climate policy, and public health, there is a pressing need to understand how l…