Background: Understanding the causes and consequences of phenotypic variability is a central topic of evolutionary biology. Mutations within non-coding cis-regulatory regions are thought to be of ...

As artificial intelligence has become a regular part of our daily lives, companies have run into a serious problem: their ...

A new edited volume published this past April explores SFI Miller Scholar Ted Chiang’s science fiction through a philosophical lens. The book is a rare addition to the subgenre, writes SFI ...

SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Anna Clemencia Guerrero has received a Whitman Center Fellowship from the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The fellowship, awarded to ...

Welcome to Santa Fe Institute.Scaling of Number, Size, and Metabolic Rate of Cells with Body Size in Mammals ...

Schindler, S.,Breidbach, O.,Jost, J. We develop an analytically tractable model of female preference for fit mates. Our population-genetic model allows to trace the dynamics at both the individual and ...

Traditional models of how culture spreads were designed to describe early civilizations, typically focused on hunter-gatherers and almost always on pre-industrial societies. Today, a myriad of factors ...

SFI External Professor Mahzarin Banaji (Harvard University) has received a BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Social Science. She shares the award with social psychologists Icek Ajzen, ...

A recent study by SFI Postdoctoral Fellow Andrew Stier and Professor Brandon Ogbunu in NPJ Complexity shows that many U.S. cities diverge from common narratives about political leanings and ...