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Spatial Structure Supports Diversity in Prebiotic Autocatalytic Chemical Ecosystems
Alex M. Plum, Christopher P. Kempes, Zhen Peng +1
Autocatalysis is thought to have played an important role in the earliest stages of the origin of life. An autocatalytic cycle (AC) is a set of reactions that results in stoichiome…
On the dynamics of mortality and the ephemeral nature of mammalian megafauna
Taran Rallings, Christopher P. Kempes, Justin D. Yeakel
Energy flow through consumer-resource interactions is largely determined by body size. Allometric relationships govern the dynamics of populations by impacting rates of reproductio…
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…
Super-linear Scaling Behavior for Electric Vehicle Chargers and Road Map to Addressing the Infrastructure Gap
Alexius Wadell, Matthew Guttenberg, Christopher P. Kempes +1
Enabling widespread electric vehicle (EV) adoption requires substantial build-out of charging infrastructure in the coming decade. We formulate the charging infrastructure needs as…
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…