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The Santa Fe Institute Announces the Expansion of Its Omidyar Fellowship in 2013

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The Santa Fe Institute's highly successful Omidyar Fellows program for interdisciplinary postdocs will be expanded in 2013, with enhancements designed to sharpen the program's focus on preparing promising early-career scientists to lead tomorrow's most critical scientific research.

Scientists Take First Step Toward a Science of Slums

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A new research project at the Santa Fe Institute, in collaboration with Slum Dwellers International and backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, seeks to initiate a scientific study of urban slums worldwide.

Was Life Inevitable? New Paper Pieces Together Metabolism's Beginnings

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Two Santa Fe Institute researchers offer a coherent picture of how metabolism, and thus all life, arose. Their paper offers new insights into the likelihood of life emerging and evolving as it did on Earth, and the chances of it arising elsewhere in the universe.

Research Seeks Data to Help Preserve Landscapes on Which Indigenous Human Groups Depend

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Research by a Santa Fe Institute researcher and his collaborators at the University of Missouri seeks better data that could help preserve the threatened landscapes on which indigenous human groups depend.

How Men and Women Organize Their (Online) Social Networks Differently

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A new quantitative study of data assembled from the online multiplayer game Pardus examines ways men and women manage their social networks drastically different, even online.

Study Suggests Homeric Epics Were Written in 762 BCE, Give or Take

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One of literature's oldest mysteries is a step closer to being solved. A new study dates Homer's The Iliad to 762 BCE and adds a quantitative means of testing ideas about history by analyzing the evolution of language.

Does Including Parasites Upset Food Web Theory? Yes and No, Says New Paper

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Newswise imageA new paper in PLOS Biology this week shows that taking the unusual step of including parasites in ecological datasets does alter the structure of resulting food webs, but that's mostly due to an increase in diversity and complexity rather than the particular characteristics of parasites. The work answers some longstanding questions about the unique role parasites play in ecological networks.

Great Exaptations: Most Traits Emerge for No Crucial Reason

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In Nature this week, Santa Fe Institute External Professor Andreas Wagner and University of Zurich colleague Aditya Barve, by simulating changes in an organism's metabolism, show that most traits may emerge as non-crucial "exaptations" rather than as selection-advantageous adaptations.

Ancient Food Webs Developed Modern Structure Soon After Mass Extinction

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Newswise imageAnalysis of a highly detailed picture of feeding relationships among 700 species from a 48 million year old ecosystem provides the most compelling evidence to date that ancient food webs were organized much like modern food webs.

Indigenous Societies' 'First Contact' Typically Brings Collapse, but Rebounds Are Possible

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An analysis led by the Santa Fe Institute's Marcus Hamilton paints a grim picture of the experiences of indigenous societies following contact with Western Europeans, but also offers hope to those seeking to preserve Brazil's remaining indigenous societies.

David Krakauer Selected as the Santa Fe Institute's Next President

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Newswise imageDavid Krakauer, an evolutionary theorist and director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been selected as the Santa Fe Institute's next president. He plans to join the Institute on August 1, 2015.

Patient Parenting: Sharing of Food Across Generations Contributes to Humans' Long Life Histories

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Newswise imageA new Santa Fe Institute study by Paul Hooper and collaborators details the intergenerational food sharing in a society of Amazon forager-farmers and shows that differences in relative need determine contributions to children from parents, grandparents, and other kin.

Tracing Languages Back to Their Common Ancestors Through the Statistics of Sound Shifts

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Newswise imageA statistical technique that sorts out when changes to words' pronunciations most likely occurred in the evolution of a language offers a renewed opportunity to trace words and languages back to their earliest common ancestor or ancestors.

Ancient and Modern Cities Aren't So Different

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Newswise imageDespite notable differences in appearance and governance, ancient human settlements function in much the same way as modern cities, according to new findings by researchers at the Santa Fe Institute and the University of Colorado Boulder.

How Long Do Firms Live? Finding Patterns of Company Mortality in Market Data

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Newswise imageNew research by Santa Fe Institute scientists reveals a surprising insight: publicly-traded firms die off at the same rate regardless of their age or economic sector.

Study: Polarization in Congress Is Worsening, and It Stifles Policy Innovation

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Newswise imageA new study from the Santa Fe Institute confirms quantitatively that partisan disagreements in the U.S. Congress are worsening and that polarization is harmful to policy innovation.

Species' Evolutionary Choice: Disperse or Adapt?

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Dispersal and adaptation are two evolutionary strategies available to species given an environment. Generalists, like dandelions, send their offspring far and wide. Specialists, like alpine flowers, adapt to the conditions of a particular place. New research models the interplay between these two strategies and shows how even minor changes in an environment can create feedback and trigger dramatic shifts in evolutionary strategy.

The Language of Invention: Most Innovations Are Rephrasings of Past Inventions

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Most new patents are combinations of existing ideas and pretty much always have been, even as the stream of fundamentally new core technologies has slowed, according to a new study led by Santa Fe Institute researchers.

Could Mobile Phone Data Help Bring Electricity to the Developing World?

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In a new study, researchers used anonymized cell phone data to assess the feasibility of electrification options for rural communities in Senegal, demonstrating a potentially valuable approach to using data to solve problems of development.

Is the Whooping Cough Resurgence Due to Vaccinated People Not Knowing They're Infectious?

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Newswise imageThe dramatic resurgence of whooping cough is due, in large part, to vaccinated people who are infectious but who do not display the symptoms, suggests a new study by two Santa Fe Institute researchers in BMC Medicine. The study suggests that the number of people transmitting without symptoms could be many times greater than the number of people transmitting with symptoms - and much higher than previous estimates.
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