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On the records
Andrew Berdahl, Uttam Bhat, Vanessa Ferdinand +12
World record setting has long attracted public interest and scientific investigation. Extremal records summarize the limits of the space explored by a process, and the historical p…
A quantitative definition of organismality and its application to lichen
Eric Libby, Joshua Grochow, Simon DeDeo +1
The organism is a fundamental concept in biology. However there is no universally accepted, formal, and yet broadly applicable definition of what an organism is. Here we introduce…
Optimal high-level descriptions of dynamical systems
David H. Wolpert, Joshua A. Grochow, Eric Libby +1
To analyze high-dimensional systems, many fields in science and engineering rely on high-level descriptions, sometimes called "macrostates," "coarse-grainings," or "effective theor…
Geometry shapes evolution of early multicellularity
Eric Libby, William Ratcliff, Michael Travisano +1
Organisms have increased in complexity through a series of major evolutionary transitions, in which formerly autonomous entities become parts of a novel higher-level entity. One in…