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The new issue of SFI’s interactive science magazine, the SFI Bulletin, is now live online. Our spring 2014 issue, “How Life Got Complex,” asks why, and how, many biological systems on Earth have evolved to be ever-more complex, even intelligent.

Read the new SFI Bulletin here (May 2014)

In this issue, SFI External Professors David Krakauer and Jessica Flack ask:

  • How might the forces driving biological evolution connect to the physical laws of the universe?
  • Why did the first single-celled organisms begin to specialize?
  • How do creatures manipulate both time and space to foster conditions that favor them?
  • Does the ability of many species to make predictions about the future suggest a new definition of biological intelligence?
  • What was nature thinking when it created a life form – us – capable of complex thought?

Existing explanations don’t get us there. As Krakauer writes so eloquently: “The theory of everything is a theory of everything except those things that theorize.”

Enjoy the issue here (May 2014)

The SFI Bulletin is published one to three times a year. You can enjoy it on your tablet, your desktop, or your smart phone. Read the articles. Watch and listen to video interviews with the scientists. Explore interactive illustrations that give you richer insights.

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