Colloquium: Criticality and dynamical scaling in living systems

MA Munoz - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2018 - APS
A celebrated and controversial hypothesis suggests that some biological systems—parts,
aspects, or groups of them—may extract important functional benefits from operating at the …

Co-opting evo-devo concepts for new insights into mechanisms of behavioural diversity

KL Hoke, E Adkins-Regan, AH Bass… - Journal of …, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
We propose that insights from the field of evolutionary developmental biology (or 'evo-devo')
provide a framework for an integrated understanding of the origins of behavioural diversity …

When to be critical? Performance and evolvability in different regimes of neural Ising agents

S Khajehabdollahi, J Prosi, E Giannakakis, G Martius… - Artificial Life, 2022 - direct.mit.edu
It has long been hypothesized that operating close to the critical state is beneficial for natural
and artificial evolutionary systems. We put this hypothesis to test in a system of evolving …

Diversity-induced trivialization and resilience of neural dynamics

A Hutt, D Trotter, A Pariz, TA Valiante… - … Journal of Nonlinear …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Heterogeneity is omnipresent across all living systems. Diversity enriches the dynamical
repertoire of these systems but remains challenging to reconcile with their manifest …

Observability of Boolean multiplex control networks

Y Wu, J Xu, XM Sun, W Wang - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Boolean multiplex (multilevel) networks (BMNs) are currently receiving considerable
attention as theoretical arguments for modeling of biological systems and system level …

Understanding the physical mechanism of intrinsic noise inside viscous isotropic solids

L Fa, Y Wang, H Gong, D Liu, J Jiang, L Li, J Liang… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
We report acoustic impulse-response and system function of particle vibration inside
viscous, dense solids and explain the physical mechanism of intrinsic-noise generation …

Evolution in the Debian GNU/Linux software network: analogies and differences with gene regulatory networks

P Villegas, MA Muñoz… - Journal of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Biological networks exhibit intricate architectures deemed to be crucial for their functionality.
In particular, gene regulatory networks, which play a key role in information processing in …

The dynamical regime and its importance for evolvability, task performance and generalization

J Prosi, S Khajehabdollahi, E Giannakakis… - ALIFE 2021: The 2021 …, 2021 - direct.mit.edu
It has long been hypothesized that operating close to the critical state is beneficial for natural
and artificial systems. We test this hypothesis by evolving foraging agents controlled by …

Robust stability of interactional genetic regulatory networks with reaction-diffusion terms

C Zou, X Wei, Q Zhang, C Zhou - Advances in Difference Equations, 2017 - Springer
We have analyzed the stability of interactional genetic regulatory networks with reaction-
diffusion terms under Dirichlet boundary conditions in this article. Corresponding to …

Interplay between degree and Boolean rules in the stability of Boolean networks

B Min - Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Empirical evidence has revealed that biological regulatory systems are controlled by high-
level coordination between topology and Boolean rules. In this study, we look at the joint …