The brain is expensive, incurring high material and metabolic costs for its size—relative to
the size of the body—and many aspects of brain network organization can be mostly …

A recurrent theme in evolutionary biology is to contrast natural selection and developmental
constraint–two forces pitted against each other as competing explanations for organismal …

Praise for the first edition:… superb, beautifully written and organized work that takes an
engineering approach to systems biology. Alon provides nicely written appendices to …

Although the ultimate aim of neuroscientific enquiry is to gain an understanding of the brain
and how its workings relate to the mind, the majority of current efforts are largely focused on …

Biological networks have an inherent simplicity: they are modular with a design that can be
separated into units that perform almost independently. Furthermore, they show reuse of …

Evolution in time-varying environments naturally leads to adaptable biological systems that
can easily switch functionalities. Advances in the synthesis of environmentally responsive …

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We introduce the concept of many-to-one mapping of form to function and suggest that this
emergent property of complex systems promotes the evolution of physiological diversity. Our …

Software systems emerge from mere keystrokes to form intricate functional networks
connecting many collaborating modules, objects, classes, methods, and subroutines …

The biological and social sciences often generalize causal conclusions from one context or
location to others that may differ in some relevant respects, as is illustrated by inferences …