For nearly a century, scientists from a diverse set of fields have been captured by questions about the origins of life. How did life, in all of its complexity, arise from comparatively simple matter?

Medieval friar William of Ockham posited a famous idea: always pick the simplest explanation. Often referred to as the parsimony principle, “Ockham’s razor” has shaped scientific decisions for ...

Applications for the third Complexity Global School (CGS) are now open. The school will be hosted at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, and applicants from all countries are eligible to ...

Cultural traits — the information, beliefs, behaviors, customs, and practices that shape the character of a population — are ...

Applications for the third Complexity Global School (CGS) are now open. Like last year, the school will  be hosted at ...

Abha Eli Phoboo: From the Santa Fe Institute, this is Complexity. Melanie Mitchell: I’m Melanie Mitchell. Abha: And I’m Abha Eli Phoboo. [THEME MUSIC FADES OUT] So far in this season, we’ve looked at ...

The concept of a “fitness landscape,” a picturesque term for a mapping of the vertices of a finite graph to the real numbers, has arisen in several fields, including evolutionary theory. The ...

Complex Systems Summer School (CSSS) offers an intensive four-week introduction to complex behavior in mathematical, physical, living, and social systems. CSSS brings together graduate students, ...

Blonder, B.,Violle, C.,Bentley, L. P.,Enquist, B. J. P>The leaf economics spectrum describes biome-invariant scaling functions for leaf functional traits that relate to global primary productivity and ...

Pietraszewski's representation scheme is parsimonious and intuitive. However, internal mental representations may be subject to resource constraints that prefer more unusual systems such as sparse ...

Housed in the old pool house on SFI’s Hyde Park campus, this extrapolated space holds ever-evolving exhibits on scale, time, and cosmodity. Heliotown II is the work of one of SFI's Omega Minds, Thomas ...

This paper tests two of the simplest and most popular trading rules--moving average and trading range break, by utilizing a very long data series, the Dow Jones index from 1897 to 1986. Standard ...