While browsing a recent issue of Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, I came across an essay titled, "Towards a heterarchical approach to biology and cognition," and my heart soared. "What a ...

The book makes a persuasive case that there are only three ways of getting things done effectively as an organization: hierarchy, heterarchy and responsible autonomy. Hierarchy is still the dominant, ...

Cell differentiation is affected by complex networks of transcription factors that co-ordinate re-organisation of the chromatin landscape. The hierarchies of these relationships can be difficult to ...

Author Bio: Professor of anthropology (emerita) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Carole Crumley is a founding scientist of the research strategy termed historical ecology. Her key ...