ERC Advanced Grant · 2016
Self Organization in Competition and Diversity
At all scales, biology presents an astounding diversity of discrete states or species that coexist with each other long times. At the sub-cellular scale, molecular competition and positive feedback maintain cells in specialized epigenetic states over very long time, allowing for embryonic development of complex multicellular organisms. On larger length scales, stable yet dynamic ecosystems emerge from competition between different species. This general pattern calls for research with a focus on diversity, and how competition can act as its "engine". Statistical mechanics of complex systems provides a framework for studying universality of collective and cooperative phenomena, usually…
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