A cell is fundamentally a container—a vessel that encapsulates life at the most basic level. Many biologists believe ...

A recent special issue of Philosophical Transactions B takes on one of the biggest mysteries in science: how life first began ...

The Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Science Modeling and Complexity brings together a group of advanced Ph.D. students and a small faculty for an intensive two-week study of computational ...

Sahana Subramanyam was a participant in SFI's 2018 summer Research Experience for Undergraduates — now called the Undergraduate Complexity Research program. In this essay, she reflects on how the ...

This paper provides a logical framework for complexity economics. Complexity economics builds from the proposition that the economy is not necessarily in equilibrium: economic agents (firms, consumers ...

Swarm is a multi-agent software platform for the simulation of complex adaptive systems. In the Swarm system the basic unit of simulation is the “swarm,” a collection of agents executing a schedule of ...

Polygyny is thought to be more prevalent where male wealth inequality is greater; however, the decline of polygyny in most of the world occurred with the emergence of capital-intensive farming with ...

The Santa Fe Institute’s Complex Systems Summer School (CSSS) offers an intensive introduction to complex behavior in mathematical, physical, living, and social systems. Spanning four weeks, CSSS ...

In the final episode of the season, Abha sits down with Melanie to hear her perspective. They chat about Melanie’s career and research with Douglas Hofstadter, the author of Gödel, Escher, Bach. They ...

Popular and academic books and chapters, authored or edited by SFI researchers. Thinking Through Archaeological Complexity explores how archaeologists can engage with complex adaptive systems, ...

Scientists are working across disciplines to render complex reality to scientific understanding. It has been the great triumph of the sciences to find consistent means of studying phenomena hidden by ...

The SFI Undergraduate Complexity Research (UCR) program is a 10-week residential experience in complexity science research. Each student develops a project in collaboration with their mentor(s); ...