摘要翻译：
为什么生命是复杂的--最重要的是--自然界过于复杂的根源是什么？这是一个基本的科学问题，用已故的佩尔·贝克的话来说，“迫切需要回答，但很少有人问”。在这些讲座中，我们回顾了从临界现象的角度来理解复杂生物学问题的起源的几个尺度上最近的尝试。为了说明这种方法，我们讨论了三种情况，即大规模的大脑动力学、蛋白质自发波动的特征和细胞线粒体网络的生理复杂性。
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英文标题：
《Life at the edge: complexity and criticality in biological function》
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作者：
Dante R. Chialvo
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最新提交年份：
2018
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分类信息：

一级分类：Quantitative Biology        数量生物学
二级分类：Other Quantitative Biology        其他定量生物学
分类描述：Work in quantitative biology that does not fit into the other q-bio classifications
不适合其他q-bio分类的定量生物学工作
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英文摘要：
  Why life is complex and --most importantly-- what is the origin of the over abundance of complexity in nature? This is a fundamental scientific question which, paraphrasing the late Per Bak, "is screaming to be answered but seldom is even being asked". In these lectures we review recent attempts across several scales to understand the origins of complex biological problems from the perspective of critical phenomena. To illustrate the approach three cases are discussed, namely the large scale brain dynamics, the characterisation of spontaneous fluctuations of proteins and the physiological complexity of the cell mitochondria network.
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PDF链接：
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.11737