Life Boils Down To Five 'Rules' ... Or So Says The Madingley Model

Thursday, August 21, 2014 - 18:50 in Biology & Nature

By James Smith, Research Fellow in Fisheries at UNSW AustraliaIt may sound overly simple, but just five processes can define us as animals: eating, metabolism, reproduction, dispersal and death.They might not seem like much, but, thanks to a mathematical model from scientists at Microsoft Research, we know that these five processes are the key to all ecosystems. read more

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