A new paper out of the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) in Cambridge, delves into the hot question of how the enormous diversity of life on our planet came to be and continues to elaborate over time.

In the July 14 issue of Nature, de Aguiar and colleagues employ a systems biology approach to ask the question of how patterns arise out of remarkable diversity. From their introductory paragraph:

Our biodiversity results provide additional evidence that species diversity arises without specific physical barriers. This is similar to heavy traffic flows, where traffic jams can form even without accidents or barriers.

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