Experiments find coherent information transfer through biological groups on length and time
scales distinctly below those on which asymptotically correct hydrodynamic theories apply …

Living systems are intrinsically nonequilibrium: They use metabolically derived chemical
energy to power their emergent dynamics and self-organization. A crucial driver of these …

Darwinian fitness describes the capacity of an organism to appropriate resources from the
environment and to convert these resources into net-offspring production. Studies of …

Sensory mechanisms in biology, from cells to humans, have the property of adaptivity,
whereby the response produced by the sensor is adapted to the overall amplitude of the …

Coordination is a ubiquitous feature of all living things. It occurs by virtue of informational
coupling among component parts and processes and can be quite specific (as when cells in …

The central rôle of energy in all life processes has led to the development of numerous
hypotheses, conjectures and theories on the relationships between thermodynamics and …

The comprehension of how local interactions arise in global collective behavior is of utmost
importance in both biological and physical research. Traditional agent-based models often …

The functional dynamics exhibited by cell collectives are fascinating examples of robust,
synchronized, collective behavior in spatially extended biological systems. To investigate …

Almost all biological systems contain several levels of observation (macroscopic to
microscopic). By an adequate cutting of the total space, the dynamical and thermodynamical …

A single animal group can display different types of collective motion at different times. For a
one-dimensional individual-based model of self-organizing group formation, we show that …