Has the end of Apartheid made South African labor markets meritocratic? This paper presents an analytical framework with testable hypotheses concerning equal opportunity. Using this framework and ...

SFI External Professor Constantino Tsallis (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas) will serve as co-chair and synthesis lead ...

The built and natural worlds around us are full of examples of diversity from small, incremental evolutionary changes. Keyboard designs offer slightly different key spacing and press stiffness; two ...

The brain runs on about 15 to 20 watts, less than most light bulbs, but has still managed to evolve a voracious appetite for ...

Sensory systems appear to learn to transform incoming sensory information into perceptual representations, or "objects," that can inform and guide behavior with minimal explicit supervision. Here, we ...

Living cells are fundamentally nonequilibrium systems, meaning they constantly expend energy through seemingly one-way, irreversible processes, such as transcribing DNA into RNA, to keep life going.

Gene-culture coevolution (GCC)-an ambitious synthesis of biological and social sciences is often used to explain the evolution of key human traits. Despite the framework's broad conceptual appeal ...

We develop an evolutionary model for individual discriminatory behavior that emerges naturally in a mixed population as an adaptive strategy. Our findings show that, when individuals have finite ...

Zuidema, Pieter A.; Peter Groenendijk; Mizanur Rahman; Valerie Trouet; Abrham Abiyu… Brian J. Enquist et al. Increasing drought pressure under anthropogenic climate change may jeopardize the potential ...

Annually, influenza epidemics lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide many more hospitalizations. The antivirals baloxavir and oseltamivir improve outcomes and limit virus spread, but their ...