While browsing a recent issue of Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, I came across an essay titled, "Towards a heterarchical approach to biology and cognition," and my heart soared. "What a ...

The book makes a persuasive case that there are only three ways of getting things done effectively as an organization: hierarchy, heterarchy and responsible autonomy. Hierarchy is still the dominant, ...

Cell differentiation is affected by complex networks of transcription factors that co-ordinate re-organisation of the chromatin landscape. The hierarchies of these relationships can be difficult to ...

Author Bio: Professor of anthropology (emerita) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Carole Crumley is a founding scientist of the research strategy termed historical ecology. Her key ...

Power in human societies is often viewed as hierarchical, meaning that it’s tiered and ranked. This view doesn’t fully capture the complexity of how power is managed in different cultures. Some ...

How do we organize elements in a system? One way is through the lens of hierarchy, which presupposes levels, a top-down ranking of elements. Another is homoarchy, which permits one (and only one) ...

For decades, a form of structural hierarchy has been the principal means of handling complexity in chip design. It’s not always perfect, and there is no ideal way in which to divide and conquer ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. From Mr Matthew Jenkins. Sir, Andrew Hill’s article (“Time for a consigliere, not a vain alpha CEO”, Business ...