Episode
COVID-19 & Complex Time in Biology & Economics with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 2)
COMPLEXITY · Apr 13, 2020 · 42 min
In several key respects, COVID-19 reveals how crucial timing is for human life. The lens of complex systems science helps us understand the central role of time in coordinating across scales, and how synchrony or misalignment leads to major consequences—whether it’s in how the metabolic differences between bats and humans can create an opportunity for interspecies epidemics, or in how the timing…