DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1319166111. Information-based fitness and the emergence of criticality in living systems

Information-based fitness and the emergence of criticality in living systems

10.1073/pnas.1319166111

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (341)

Abstract

SignificanceRecently, evidence has been mounting that biological systems might operate at the borderline between order and disorder, i.e., near a critical point. A general mathematical framework for understanding this common pattern, explaining the possible origin and role of criticality in living adaptive and evolutionary systems, is still missing. We rationalize this apparently ubiquitous criticality in terms of adaptive and evolutionary functional advantages. We provide an analytical framework, which demonstrates that the optimal response to broadly different changing environments occurs in systems organizing spontaneously—through adaptation or evolution—to the vicinity of a critical point. Furthermore, criticality turns out to be the evolutionary stable outcome of a community of individuals aimed at communicating with each other to create a collective entity.

Bibliography

Hidalgo, J., Grilli, J., Suweis, S., MuÃ±oz, M. A., Banavar, J. R., & Maritan, A. (2014). Information-based fitness and the emergence of criticality in living systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(28), 10095â10100.

Authors 6

Jorge Hidalgo (first)
Jacopo Grilli (additional)
Samir Suweis (additional)
Miguel A. Muñoz (additional)
Jayanth R. Banavar (additional)
Amos Maritan (additional)

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Dates

Type	When
Created	11 years, 1 month ago (July 1, 2014, 10:07 a.m.)
Deposited	1 year, 2 months ago (May 28, 2024, 9 a.m.)
Indexed	1 day, 14 hours ago (Aug. 21, 2025, 1:30 p.m.)
Issued	11 years, 1 month ago (June 30, 2014)
Published	11 years, 1 month ago (June 30, 2014)
Published Online	11 years, 1 month ago (June 30, 2014)
Published Print	11 years, 1 month ago (July 15, 2014)

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BibTeX

@article{Hidalgo_2014, title={Information-based fitness and the emergence of criticality in living systems}, volume={111}, ISSN={1091-6490}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1319166111}, DOI={10.1073/pnas.1319166111}, number={28}, journal={Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences}, publisher={Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences}, author={Hidalgo, Jorge and Grilli, Jacopo and Suweis, Samir and Muñoz, Miguel A. and Banavar, Jayanth R. and Maritan, Amos}, year={2014}, month=jun, pages={10095–10100} }

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