About the Authors

Luís M. A. Bettencourt

Contributed equally to this work with: Luís M. A. Bettencourt, Jessika E. Trancik

Affiliations Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America, Theoretical Division T5, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Jessika E. Trancik

Contributed equally to this work with: Luís M. A. Bettencourt, Jessika E. Trancik

trancik@mit.edu

Affiliations Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America, Engineering Systems Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jasleen Kaur

Affiliation Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LMAB JET. Performed the experiments: LMAB JET JK. Analyzed the data: LMAB JET JK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LMAB JET JK. Wrote the paper: LMAB JET.