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most citedMaximal Diversity and Zipf's Law

22 citations · 40 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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q-bio.PE2025

Evolutionary learning of microbial populations in partially predictable environments

Roaa Mohmmed Yagb Omer, Onofrio Mazzarisi, Martina Dal Bello +1

Populations evolving in fluctuating environments face the fundamental challenge of balancing adaptation to current conditions against preparation for uncertain futures. Here, we st…

econ.TH2025

The pursuit of happiness

Debora Princepe, Onofrio Mazzarisi, Erol Akcay +2

Happiness, in the U.S. Declaration of Independence, was understood quite differently from today's popular notions of personal pleasure. Happiness implies a flourishing life - one o…

cond-mat.stat-mech2024★ 9 cited

Complexity-stability relationships in competitive disordered dynamical systems

Onofrio Mazzarisi, Matteo Smerlak

Robert May famously used random matrix theory to predict that large, complex systems cannot admit stable fixed points. However, this general conclusion is not always supported by e…

q-bio.PE2022★ 9 cited

Stable cooperation emerges in stochastic multiplicative growth

Lorenzo Fant, Onofrio Mazzarisi, Emanuele Panizon +1

Understanding the evolutionary stability of cooperation is a central problem in biology, sociology, and economics. There exist only a few known mechanisms that guarantee the existe…

cond-mat.stat-mech2021★ 22 cited

Maximal Diversity and Zipf's Law

Onofrio Mazzarisi, Amanda de Azevedo-Lopes, Jeferson J. Arenzon +1

Zipf's law describes the empirical size distribution of the components of many systems in natural and social sciences and humanities. We show, by solving a statistical model, that…