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David Krakauer

President and William H. Miller Professor of Complex Systems., Santa Fe Institute.
Verified email at santafe.edu
Cited by 8594

Polyspecificity of T cell and B cell receptor recognition

…, D Hafler, P Hodgkin, ES Huseby, DC Krakauer… - Seminars in …, 2007 - Elsevier
Krakauer). This report represents a synthesis of both individual presentations as well as
in-depth discussions of key issues in this field (summaries and PowerPoints of individual …

Policing stabilizes construction of social niches in primates

JC Flack, M Girvan, FBM De Waal, DC Krakauer - Nature, 2006 - nature.com
All organisms interact with their environment, and in doing so shape it, modifying resource
availability. Termed niche construction, this process has been studied primarily at the …

The evolution of language

MA Nowak, DC Krakauer - Proceedings of the National …, 1999 - National Acad Sciences
The emergence of language was a defining moment in the evolution of modern humans. It
was an innovation that changed radically the character of human society. Here, we provide an …

The debate over understanding in AI's large language models

M Mitchell, DC Krakauer - Proceedings of the National …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
We survey a current, heated debate in the artificial intelligence (AI) research community on
whether large pretrained language models can be said to understand language—and the …

The challenges and scope of theoretical biology

DC Krakauer, JP Collins, D Erwin, JC Flack… - Journal of theoretical …, 2011 - Elsevier
Scientific theories seek to provide simple explanations for significant empirical regularities
based on fundamental physical and mechanistic constraints. Biological theories have rarely …

Transitions from nonliving to living matter

S Rasmussen, L Chen, D Deamer, DC Krakauer… - Science, 2004 - science.org
963 upwelling circulations in the ocean, yielding colder ocean surface temperatures and
additional nutrients for biological growth. The synergy of all these measurements makes the …

Redundancy, antiredundancy, and the robustness of genomes

DC Krakauer, JB Plotkin - Proceedings of the National …, 2002 - National Acad Sciences
Genetic mutations that lead to undetectable or minimal changes in phenotypes are said to
reveal redundant functions. Redundancy is common among phenotypes of higher organisms …

Evolutionary preservation of redundant duplicated genes

DC Krakauer, MA Nowak - Seminars in cell & developmental biology, 1999 - Elsevier
DC Krakauer and M. Nowak … DC Krakauer and M. Nowak … Wolfe KH, Shields DC
1997 Molecular evidence for an ancient duplication of the entire yeast genome. Nature 387:708713 …

Groups confuse predators by exploiting perceptual bottlenecks: a connectionist model of the confusion effect

DC Krakauer - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 1995 - Springer
Aggregation is a well documented behaviour in a number of animal groups. The “confusion
effect” is one mechanism thought to mitigate the success of predators feeding on gregarious …

Social structure, robustness, and policing cost in a cognitively sophisticated species

…, FBM De Waal, DC Krakauer - The American …, 2005 - journals.uchicago.edu
Conflict management is one of the primary requirements for social complexity. Of the many
forms of conflict management, one of the rarest and most interesting is third‐party policing, or …