How do human social, cultural, and economic systems interact with natural ecosystems? In a brief "Big Questions" video profile, SFI Professor Jennifer Dunne explores how these obvious but often neglected interdependencies can be studied through the mathematics of networks. 

Watch Jennifer Dunne discuss food webs that include humans (SFI video, 4 minutes)

Learn why and how the Santa Fe Institute asks big questions (SFI video, 5 minutes)

More about Dunne's recent research

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