The total knowledge contained within a collective supersedes the knowledge of even its most
intelligent member. Yet the collective knowledge will remain inaccessible to us unless we …

Traveling waves (from action potential propagation to swimming body motions or intestinal
peristalsis) are ubiquitous phenomena in biological systems and yet are diverse in form, …

Complex global behavior patterns can emerge from very simple local interactions between
many agents. However, no local interaction rules have been identified that generate some …

Most animals fight by repeating complex stereotypic behaviours, yet the internal structure of
these behaviours has rarely been dissected in detail. We characterized the internal structure …

Theoretical studies of ecosystem models have generally concluded that large numbers of
species will not stably coexist if the species are all competing for the same limited set of …

Animals often assess each other by paying special attention to signals, which help to communicate
the quality of each individual. When there is a conflict of interest between the signaler …

We propose a new readout architecture for echo state networks where multiple linear readout
modules are activated at distinct time points to varying degrees by a separate controller …

Evolutionary game theory has been the theoretical tool of choice for analysis of social
interactions in general and aggressive interaction in particular. Many important game theory …

For efficient background matching it is essential that animals closely match a set of salient
visual statistics of their visual surroundings. The mean intensity of a background is a key …

Ecological models of community dynamics fall into two main categories. The neutral theory
of biodiversity correctly predicts various large-scale ecosystem characteristics such as the …