foundational
Core concepts upon which other understanding builds. Foundational principles in biology—like natural selection or thermodynamics—constrain and enable all higher-level phenomena.
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Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction
CitationThe Only Thing That Matters
CitationDesign Rules: The Power of Modularity
CitationEmergence of Scaling in Random Networks
CitationMammalian hibernation: cellular and molecular responses to depressed metabolism and low temperature
CitationPower-law distributions in empirical data
CitationPlant Succession: An Analysis of the Development of Vegetation
CitationSexual Selection Theory Development
CitationThe Power of Movement in Plants
CitationThe Genetical Theory of Natural Selection
CitationQuorum sensing in bacteria: the LuxR-LuxI family of cell density-responsive transcriptional regulators
CitationOn Being the Right Size
CitationBody size and metabolism
CitationSome Demographic and Genetic Consequences of Environmental Heterogeneity for Biological Control
CitationThe Theory of Island Biogeography
CitationQuorum sensing in bacteria
CitationCours d'économie politique
CitationThe Theory of the Growth of the Firm
CitationMass Extinctions in the Marine Fossil Record
CitationFlocks, herds and schools: A distributed behavioral model
CitationBeiträge zur Sozialpsychologie des Haushuhns
CitationCapitalism, Socialism and Democracy
CitationThe Architecture of Complexity
CitationTarget Big Markets
CitationA new evolutionary law
CitationQuorum sensing: cell-to-cell communication in bacteria
CitationEvolution in Mendelian Populations
CitationMate selection - a selection for a handicap
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