Life is characterized by a myriad of complex dynamic processes allowing organisms to grow,
reproduce, and evolve. Physical approaches for describing systems out of thermodynamic …

The physical origin of behaviour in biological organisms is distinct from those of non-living
systems in one significant way: organisms exhibit intentionality or goal-directed behaviour …

One of the most striking and intriguing aspects of biological phenomena is the formation and
maintenance of patterns of order extending over a macroscopic space and time scale. From …

Collective behavior in biological systems is a complex topic, to say the least. It runs wildly
across scales in both space and time, involving taxonomically vastly different organisms …

Many biological, physical, and social interactions have a particular dependence on where
they take place; eg, in living cells, protein movement between the nucleus and cytoplasm …

In a collection of assembling particles that is allowed to reach thermal equilibrium, the
energy of a given microscopic arrangement and the probability of observing the system in …

Biological active matter is typically tightly coupled to chemical reaction networks affecting its
assembly-disassembly dynamics and stress generation. We show that localized states can …

Gould's main point was that a high level of chance has been involved in determining which
organisms have survived and evolved over the course of Earth's history. This is likely so, but …

Darwin proposed that the capacity of organisms to produce more offspring that can be
supported by the environment would lead to a struggle for existence, and individuals that are …

Many ecosystems develop strikingly regular spatial patterns because of small-scale
interactions between organisms, a process generally referred to as spatial self-organization …