Bradly Alicea
@bradly-alicea.bsky.social
Director of research and content @Orthogonal_Lab. Scientific Advisory Board @ Active Inference Institute. Lecturer, iSchool @ UIUC. Developmental biology @openworm. Bike enthusiast. Good without God. Hands off Higher-Ed. #tsundoku afficionado.
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The three of us ended up writing a paper with Simon Levin on applying these PDE models to protocell evolution, considering competition between "fast genes" and "slow genes" that were complementary for protocell-level replication.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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A PDE Model for Protocell Evolution and the Origin of Chromosomes via Multilevel Selection - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
The evolution of complex cellular life involved two major transitions: the encapsulation of self-replicating genetic entities into cellular units and the aggregation of individual genes into a collect...
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November 23, 2025 at 6:30 AM
The three of us ended up writing a paper with Simon Levin on applying these PDE models to protocell evolution, considering competition between "fast genes" and "slow genes" that were complementary for protocell-level replication.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...