When Branching Processes are Disturbed and Become Turbulent

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Environmental stress mediates global human communities’ mutation, evolution, migration, microscale turbulence, and long range diffusion. “When the going gets tough, the tough get going”  ?

Environmental stress mediates global human communities’ mutation, evolution, migration, nanoscale turbulence, and long range diffusion. “When the going gets tough, the tough get smarter” ?

Environmental stress mediates global human communities’ mutation, migration, nanoscale turbulence, evolution, and long range diffusion. “When the going gets tough, the tough get smarter,  and more opportunistic”

Environmental stress mediates global human communities’ mutation, evolution, nanoscale turbulence, migration, and long range diffusion. “When the going gets tough, the tough get smarter, more mobile, and more opportunistic” ?


Branching trees – as a core organizing principle and visualization for certain processes

Novel order-level lineage of ammonia-oxidizing archaea widespread in marine and terrestrial environments

What they do not show is that some of these branches mutate, interbreed and what look like a simple branching process becomes a directed graph (links in both directions) that can have closed cycles, turbulent and chaotic behaviors.  Human, microbial, viral and organizational processes.

Branching trees can mutate, interbreed and what looks like a simple branching process becomes a directed graph (links in both directions) that can have closed cycles, turbulent and chaotic behaviors. Humans, microbes, viruses, ecosystems, organizations, networks, algorithms, AIs, countries.

Richard K Collins

About: Richard K Collins

Director, The Internet Foundation Studying formation and optimized collaboration of global communities. Applying the Internet to solve global problems and build sustainable communities. Internet policies, standards and best practices.


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