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Robustness & Innovation in Evolutionary Systems
Thomas Malthus’s concern over the differential between the growth of populations and the growth of the resources to support them underlies both Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection, and much of traditional economics. But Malthus was wrong, at least over the long term. Contrary to the predictions of the logistic growth model of Pearl and Reed in 1920, the population of the US did not top out at 197 million and has just reached 300 million. Economists have extensively addressed the issue of creation of wealth, most recently through the development of endogenous growth theory, and a clear conclusion of this work is the pivotal role played by innovations in ideas, physical technology and social institutions. Similarly in natural systems, Malthus was undoubtedly correct over the short term, but over the long-term, evolutionary innovations have proven sufficient to steadily expand the planet’s carrying capacity. Innovation is consequently of substantial theoretical and practical concern. Research at SFI on innovation focuses on evolutionary processes in biological, technological, and market systems.
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Lauren Ancel-Meyers
External Professor
Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin, Section of Integrative Biology
W. Brian Arthur
External Professor
Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Intelligent Systems Lab
Robert Axtell
External Professor
Professor and Chair, George Mason University, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, Department of Computational Social Science
Carl Bergstrom
External Professor
Associate Professor, University of Washington, Dept. of Biology
Tanmoy Bhattacharya
Professor, Santa Fe Institute
TSM, Los Alamos National Laboratory, T-8
Rogier Braakman
Postdoctoral Fellow, Santa Fe Institute
Graduate student, California Institute of Technology, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Aaron Bramson
Visitor
Graduate Student and ... I don't know, University of Michigan and Lockheed Martin, Philosophy & Political Science and Integrated Systems and Solutions
Robin Bush
Associate Professor, University of California, Irvine, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
James P. Crutchfield
External Professor
Professor of Physics, University of California, Davis, Complexity Sciences Center and Physics Department
Andrew Dobson
External Professor
Professor, Princeton University, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Jennifer A. Dunne
Research Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Co-Director, Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab
Douglas H. Erwin
Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Senior Scientist and Curator, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Dept. of Paleobiology
Marcus W. Feldman
External Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Wohlford Professor, Stanford University, Biological Sciences
Walter Fontana
External Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Professor, Harvard Medical School
Jessica Green
External Professor
Professor, University of Oregon Eugene, Department of Biology
Virgil Griffith
Visiting Researcher
Graduate student, Caltech, Computation and Neural Systems
Cesar A. Hidalgo
Research Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard University, Center for International Development and Harvard Kennedy School
Sanjay Jain
External Professor
Professor, University of Delhi, Department of Physics and Asrophysics
Kunihiko Kaneko
External Professor
Professor, University of Tokyo, Department of Pure and Applied Sciences
Jinyun Ke
Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Michigan, English Language Institute
Tom Kepler
Professor, Duke University, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Immunology, Statistical Science
Steve Lansing
Professor
Professor, University of Arizona, Anthropology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Richard Lenski
Hannah Distinguished Professor and Director, Ecol, Evol Bio & Behavior, Michigan State University, Ecology Evolutionary Biology & Behavior
Simon A. Levin
Moffett Professor of Biology, Princeton University, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Seth Lloyd
External Professor
Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Pablo Marquet
External Professor
Professor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Ecology
John H. Miller
Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Professor of Economics and Social Sciences and Head, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Louis Narens
Professor, University of California, Irvine, Department of Cognitive Sciences & Department of Logic and the Philosophy of Sci
Mark Pagel
External Professor
Professor, Reading University, School of Biological Sciences
John Pepper
External Professor
Assistant Professor, University of Arizona, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Carlos Rodriguez-Sickert
Assistant Professor, Universidad Catolica de Chile, Instituto de Sociologia
Josep Sardanyes Cayuela
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona Biomedical Research Park, PRBB), Complex Systems Lab (GRIB)
Victor Seidel
Visitor
Lecturer in Management (Entrepreneurship & Innovation), University of Oxford, Said Business School
Cristian Solari
International Fellowship Candidate
CONICET Research Associate, FCEN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Biodiversidad y Biologia Experimental
Peter Stadler
External Professor
University of Leipzig, Dept. of Computer Science & Interdisciplinary Center of Bioinformatics
Charles Stevens
External Professor, Santa Fe Institute
The Salk Institute, Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory
Stefan Thurner
External Professor
Head of Complex Systems Research Group, Medical University of Vienna
Jessika Trancik
Omidyar Fellow, Santa Fe Institute
Adjunct Associate Research Scholar, Earth Institute, Columbia University
Colleen Webb
External Professor
Assistant Professor, Colorado State University, Biology
Douglas R. White
External Professor
Professor, Anthropology, University of California-Irvine, Institute of Mathematical Behavioral Science
Henry T. Wright
External Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Near Eastern Archaeology, University of Michigan, Department of Anthropology and Museum of Anthropology
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