SFI External Professor Raissa D’Souza (UC Davis) has been elected as a 2024 Fellow at the American Association for the ...

SFI External Professor Raissa D’Souza (UC Davis) has been elected as a 2024 Fellow at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Science Board & Trustees Symposium on The Emergent Political Economy of Climate Change ...

In many careers, a person must learn foundational skills before advancing deeper into their profession. Computer programmers need a solid foundation in basic mathematics; nurses must gain clinical ...

Sole, R. V.,Valverde, S. Large-scale evolution involves several layers of complexity spanning multiple scales, from genes and organisms to whole ecosystems. In this article, we review several models ...

Neo-Darwinism and the Problem of Competition. Neo-Darwinian evolution can be described compactly by the formula, “adaptation = variation + heredity + selection.” Here “variation” refers to the fact ...

Mass extinctions are considered to be quintessential examples of Court Jester drivers of macroevolution, whereby abiotic pressures drive a suite of extinctions leading to huge ecosystem changes across ...

Mounting evidence indicates that our planet might experience runaway effects associated to rising temperatures and ecosystem overexploitation, leading to catastrophic shifts on short time scales.

A divergence function on a manifold M defines a Riemannian metric g and dually coupled affine connections delta and delta * on M. When M is dually flat, that is flat with respect to delta and delta * ...

Our campus is closed to the public for this event. When the species composition in a given environment is strongly perturbed by extinctions and invasions, the system may have multiple possible ...

Srinivasan, U. T.,Dunne, J. A.,Harte, J.,Martinez, N. D.