Abstract
From nests to nets intricate wiring diagrams surround the birth and the death of life. Here we show that the same rule of complex network self-organization is valid across different physical scales and allows to predict protein interactions, food web trophic relations and world trade network transitions. This rule, which we named CH2-L3, is a network automaton that is based on paths of length-three and that maximizes internal links in local communities and minimizes external ones, according to a mechanistic model essentially driven by topological neighbourhood information.
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