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Worldwide scaling of waste generation in urban systems
Mingzhen Lu, Chuanbin Zhou, Chenghao Wang +2
The production of waste as a consequence of human activities is one of the most fundamental challenges facing our society and global ecological systems. Waste generation is rapidly…
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…