Fundamental constraints to the logic of living systems

R Solé, CP Kempes, B Corominas-Murtra… - Interface …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
It has been argued that the historical nature of evolution makes it a highly path-dependent
process. Under this view, the outcome of evolutionary dynamics could have resulted in …

Why have aggregative multicellular organisms stayed simple?

P Márquez-Zacarías, PL Conlin, K Tong, JT Pentz… - Current Genetics, 2021 - Springer
Multicellularity has evolved numerous times across the tree of life. One of the most
fundamental distinctions among multicellular organisms is their developmental mode …

Toward a theory of evolution as multilevel learning

V Vanchurin, YI Wolf, MI Katsnelson… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - pnas.org
We apply the theory of learning to physically renormalizable systems in an attempt to outline
a theory of biological evolution, including the origin of life, as multilevel learning. We …

From the origin of life to pandemics: Emergent phenomena in complex systems

O Artime, M De Domenico - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
When a large number of similar entities interact among each other and with their
environment at a low scale, unexpected outcomes at higher spatio-temporal scales might …

A multicellular developmental program in a close animal relative

M Olivetta, C Bhickta, N Chiaruttini, J Burns, O Dudin - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
All animals develop from a single-celled zygote into a complex multicellular organism
through a series of precisely orchestrated processes,. Despite the remarkable conservation …

A node-pinning and state-flipped approach to partial synchronization of Boolean Networks

L Du, Z Zhang, C ** is an effective control method that has just recently been proposed. In this
paper, the state-flipped mechanism is introduced to implement the complete synchronization …

New hypotheses of cell type diversity and novelty from orthology-driven comparative single cell and nuclei transcriptomics in echinoderms

A Meyer, C Ku, WL Hatleberg, CA Telmer, V Hinman - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Cell types are the building blocks of metazoan biodiversity and offer a powerful perspective
for inferring evolutionary phenomena. With the development of single-cell transcriptomic …

A dynamic network model predicts the phenotypes of multicellular clusters from cellular properties

P Nanda, J Barrere, T LaBar, AW Murray - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
Cell division without cell separation produces multicellular clusters in budding yeast. Two
fundamental characteristics of these clusters are their size (the number of cells per cluster) …