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18 papers
Is disruption decreasing, or is it accelerating?
R. Alexander Bentley, Sergi Valverde, Joshua Borycz +4
A recent highly-publicized study by Park et al. (Nature 613: 138-144, 2023), claiming that science has become less disruptive over recent decades, represents an extraordinary achie…
Evolving complexity: how tinkering shapes cells, software and ecological networks
Ricard Sole, Sergi Valverde
A common trait of complex systems is that they can be represented by means of a network of interacting parts. It is, in fact, the network organisation (more than the parts) what la…
Chromatic transitions in the emergence of syntax networks
Bernat Corominas-Murtra, Martí Sànchez Fibla, Sergi Valverde +1
The emergence of syntax during childhood is a remarkable example of how complex correlations unfold in nonlinear ways through development. In particular, rapid transitions seem to…
Is nestedness in mutualistic networks an evolutionary spandrel?
Sergi Valverde, Jose Montoya, Lucas Joppa +1
Mutualistic networks have been shown to involve complex patterns of interactions among animal and plant species. The architecture of these webs seems to pervade some of their robus…
Emergence of proto-organisms from bistable stochastic differentiation and adhesion
Salva Duran-Nebreda, Adriano Bonforti, Raul Montañez +2
The rise of multicellularity in the early evolution of life represents a major challenge for evolutionary biology. Guidance for finding answers has emerged from disparate fields, f…
On singularities in combination-driven models of technological innovation
Ricard V. Solé, Daniel R. Amor, Sergi Valverde
It has been suggested that innovations occur mainly by combination: the more inventions accumulate, the higher the probability that new inventions are obtained from previous design…