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The Evolutionary Ecology of Software: Constraints, Innovation, and the AI Disruption
Sergi Valverde, Blai Vidiella, Salva Duran-Nebreda
This chapter investigates the evolutionary ecology of software, focusing on the symbiotic relationship between software and innovation. An interplay between constraints, tinkering,…
Networks: The Visual Language of Complexity
Blai Vidiella, Salva Duran-Nebreda, Sergi Valverde
Understanding the origins of complexity is a fundamental challenge with implications for biological and technological systems. Network theory emerges as a powerful tool to model co…
Is disruption decreasing, or is it accelerating?
R. Alexander Bentley, Sergi Valverde, Joshua Borycz +4
A recent highly-publicized study by Park et al. (Nature 613: 138-144, 2023), claiming that science has become less disruptive over recent decades, represents an extraordinary achie…
Spatial dynamics of synthetic microbial hypercycles and their parasites
Daniel R. Amor, Raúl Montañez, Salva Duran-Nebreda +1
Early theoretical work revealed that the simplest class of autocatalytic cycles, known as hypercycles, provide an elegant framework for understanding the evolution of mutualism. Fu…
Population dynamics of synthetic Terraformation motifs
Ricard Sole, Raul Montanez, Salva Duran-Nebreda +3
Ecosystems are complex systems, currently experiencing several threats associated with global warming, intensive exploitation, and human-driven habitat degradation. Such threats ar…
Spatial self-organization in hybrid models of multicellular adhesion
Adriano Bonforti, Salva Duran-Nebreda, Raul Montañez +1
Spatial self-organization emerges in distributed systems exhibiting local interactions when nonlinearities and the appropriate propagation of signals are at work. These kinds of ph…
Emergence of proto-organisms from bistable stochastic differentiation and adhesion
Salva Duran-Nebreda, Adriano Bonforti, Raul Montañez +2
The rise of multicellularity in the early evolution of life represents a major challenge for evolutionary biology. Guidance for finding answers has emerged from disparate fields, f…
Synthetic circuit designs for Earth terraformation
Ricard Solé, Salva Duran-Nebreda, Raul Montañez
Mounting evidence indicates that our planet might experience runaway effects associated to rising temperatures and ecosystem overexploitation, leading to catastrophic shifts on sho…
Emergence of multicellularity in a model of cell growth, death and aggregation under size-dependent selection
Salva Duran-Nebreda, Ricard V. Solé
How multicellular life forms evolved out from unicellular ones constitutes a major problem in our understanding of the evolution of our biosphere. A recent set of experiments invol…