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Recombination dramatically speeds up evolution of finite populations
Elisheva Cohen, David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine
We study the role of recombination, as practiced by genetically-competent bacteria, in speeding up Darwinian evolution. This is done by adding a new process to a previously-studied…
Physical Schemata Underlying Biological Pattern Formation - Examples, Issues and Strategies
Herbert Levine, Eshel Ben-Jacob
Biological systems excel at building spatial structures on scales ranging from nanometers to kilometers and exhibit temporal patterning from milliseconds to years. One approach tha…
Fluctuation-regularized Front Propagation Dynamics
Elisheva Cohen, David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine
We introduce and study a new class of fronts in finite particle number reaction-diffusion systems, corresponding to propagating up a reaction rate gradient. We show that these syst…
Dynamic instabilities of fracture under biaxial strain using a phase field model
Herve Henry, Herbert Levine
We present a phase field model of the propagation of fracture under plane strain. This model, based on simple physical considerations, is able to accurately reproduce the different…