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Darwin Day is observed annually on February 12, Charles Darwin's birthday. This year, SFI shares some faculty insights about the man who helped us understand life's great diversity.

An analysis of conflicts within a community of pigtail macaques shows how agitated monkeys can precipitate critical, large-scale brawls.

SFI has named evolutionary anthropologist Paul Hooper as its new Director of Education. 

Human settlements sprawl according to common factors, and modern cities show similar patterns to ancient ones, but hunter-gatherer encampments look much different. An SFI working group is trying to figure out why.

For her central contributions to food web analyses, SFI Professor and Vice President for Science Jennifer Dunne has been selected as a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America for 2017.

SFI researchers examine cellular physiology to understand just how little energy life needs to survive.

Following an SFI discussion of recent events, President David Krakauer expresses unwavering commitment to the free exchange of ideas in a complex world.

Professor Sidney Redner and colleagues reveal an optimal strategy for foragers, whether they're searching for berries in the woods or oil in the desert.

Some 30 researchers gather at SFI this week to discover how social networks influence wealth inequality.

On September 30, 2016, SFI's Jeremy Sabloff was appointed the next Chair of the Cultural Property Advisory Committee.

How large-scale factors like evolution and environments interact to produce cancer risk is the subject of a new study published in the February issue of Ecology Letters.

During a January 24 talk in Santa Fe, neurobiologist Christof Koch presented a theory about which brains can experience consciousness and which cannot. Watch his talk here.

The Winter 2017 issue of SFI's quarterly newsletter is available online. Download it here.

Collective decision-making can be beneficial for social animal groups, but not if members share bad information.

A new paper published in the journal Animal Behavior calls for further study of the "audience effect" across animal species by using methods similar to those used in human communication research.

An SFI working group re-frames "cyber security-as-usual."

Models from ecology may have some important things to teach us about politics, competition, and our modern-day social echo chambers. 

Scientists discuss the importance and future of 'sherpas' for researching complex intelligence.

Two sets of mathematically inclined, multidisciplinary postdocs convene at the Santa Fe Institute.

Through a new online social circle research panel dubbed “SciFriends,” SFI Professor Mirta Galesic and her team are working to shed new light on how friends influence each others' thoughts and behaviors.