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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…
The spectral dimension of human mobility
Lei Dong, Kevin O'Keeffe, Paolo Santi +5
Human mobility patterns are surprisingly structured. In spite of many hard to model factors, such as climate, culture, and socioeconomic opportunities, aggregate migration rates ob…
The hidden universality of movement in cities
Markus Schläpfer, Michael Szell, Hadrien Salat +2
The interaction of all mobile species with their environment hinges on their movement patterns: the places they visit and how frequently they go there. In human society, where the…
The ecological and evolutionary energetics of hunter-gatherer residential mobility
Marcus J. Hamilton, Jose Lobo, Eric Rupley +2
Residential mobility is deeply entangled with all aspects of hunter-gatherer life ways, and is therefore an issue of central importance in hunter-gatherer studies. Hunter-gatherers…
The systematic structure and predictability of urban business diversity
Hyejin Youn, Luís M. A. Bettencourt, José Lobo +3
Understanding cities is central to addressing major global challenges from climate and health to economic resilience. Although increasingly perceived as fundamental socio-economic…
The scaling of human interactions with city size
Markus Schläpfer, Luis M. A. Bettencourt, Sebastian Grauwin +5
The size of cities is known to play a fundamental role in social and economic life. Yet, its relation to the structure of the underlying network of human interactions has not been…