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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…
Idea engines: Unifying innovation and obsolescence from markets and genetic evolution to science
Edward D. Lee, Christopher P. Kempes, Geoffrey B. West
Innovation and obsolescence describe dynamics of ever-churning and adapting social and biological systems, concepts that encompass field-specific formulations. We formalize the con…
Scaling laws and a general theory for the growth of public companies
Jiang Zhang, Christopher P. Kempes, Marcus J. Hamilton +2
Publicly traded companies are fundamental units of contemporary economies and markets and are important mechanisms through which humans interact with their environments. Understand…
Scaling of Urban Income Inequality in the United States
Elisa Heinrich Mora, Jacob J. Jackson, Cate Heine +3
Urban scaling analysis, the study of how aggregated urban features vary with the population of an urban area, provides a promising framework for discovering commonalities across ci…
Paradox resolved: The allometric scaling of cancer risk across species
Christopher P. Kempes, Geoffrey B. West, John W. Pepper
Understanding the cross-species behavior of cancer is important for uncovering fundamental mechanisms of carcinogenesis, and for translating results of model systems between specie…
Dynamics of growth, death, and resource competition in sessile organisms
Edward D. Lee, Christopher P. Kempes, Geoffrey B. West
Population-level scaling in ecological systems arises from individual growth and death with competitive constraints. We build on a minimal dynamical model of metabolic growth where…