The scaling of goals from cellular to anatomical homeostasis: an evolutionary simulation, experiment and analysis

We thank Hananel Hazan, Benjamin Levin and Santosh Manicka for helpful discussions, Susan Lewis and Julia Poirier for assistance with the manuscript. L.P.-L. thanks Antoine and Isabelle Lopez, and Flagey 10 for general support.

Raw data are available upon request; software is available at https://github.com/LPioL/scalefreecognition.

L.P.-L.: conceptualization, data curation, formal analysis, investigation, methodology, software, visualization, writing—original draft, writing—review and editing; J.B.: conceptualization, formal analysis, investigation, writing—original draft; J.V.L.: conceptualization, formal analysis, investigation, writing—original draft; M.L.: conceptualization, funding acquisition, methodology, project administration, writing—original draft, writing—review and editing.

All authors gave final approval for publication and agreed to be held accountable for the work performed therein.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of grant no. 62212 from the John Templeton Foundation and the support of grant no. TWCF0606 from the Templeton World Charity Foundation. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the view of the funders.

Raw data are available upon request; software is available at https://github.com/LPioL/scalefreecognition.