Sara Imari Walker

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Sara Imari Walker

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#6703

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#1790

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Sara Imari Walker

Biology

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#9040

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#2052

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Sara Imari Walker's Degrees

PhD Physics University of California, Santa Cruz
Bachelors Physics University of California, Santa Cruz

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According to Wikipedia, Sara Imari Walker is an American theoretical physicist and astrobiologist with research interests in the origins of life, astrobiology, physics of life, emergence, complex and dynamical systems, and artificial life. Walker is deputy director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science at Arizona State University , associate director of the ASU-SFI Center for Biosocial Complex Systems and an associate professor at ASU. She is a co-founder of the astrobiology social network SAGANet, and on the board of directors for Blue Marble Space, a nonprofit education and science organization. As a science communicator, she is a frequent guest on podcasts and series, such as Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman.

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Sara Imari Walker's Published Works

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Published Works

Exoplanet Biosignatures: A Review of Remotely Detectable Signs of Life (2017) (272)
The algorithmic origins of life (2012) (180)
The Astrobiology Primer v2.0 (2016) (91)
Prebiotic network evolution: six key parameters. (2015) (87)
Exoplanet Biosignatures: Future Directions (2017) (82)
Criticality Distinguishes the Ensemble of Biological Regulatory Networks. (2018) (66)
The informational architecture of the cell (2015) (65)
Universal Sequence Replication, Reversible Polymerization and Early Functional Biopolymers: A Model for the Initiation of Prebiotic Sequence Evolution (2012) (62)
Beyond prebiotic chemistry (2016) (59)
Origins of life: a problem for physics, a key issues review (2017) (56)
Exoplanet Biosignatures: At the Dawn of a New Era of Planetary Observations (2018) (49)
Top-Down Causation and the Rise of Information in the Emergence of Life (2014) (48)
Evolutionary Transitions and Top-Down Causation (2012) (48)
From matter to life: Information and causality (2017) (47)
Formal Definitions of Unbounded Evolution and Innovation Reveal Universal Mechanisms for Open-Ended Evolution in Dynamical Systems (2016) (45)
How causal analysis can reveal autonomy in models of biological systems (2017) (42)
The hidden simplicity of biology (2016) (41)
Recycling of informational units leads to selection of replicators in a prebiotic soup. (2013) (40)
Identifying molecules as biosignatures with assembly theory and mass spectrometry (2020) (40)
Cancer as a disorder of patterning information: computational and biophysical perspectives on the cancer problem (2017) (39)
An Extended Model for the Evolution of Prebiotic Homochirality: A Bottom-Up Approach to the Origin of Life (2008) (35)
Universal scaling across biochemical networks on Earth (2019) (34)
Punctuated Chirality (2008) (33)
New scaling relation for information transfer in biological networks (2015) (32)
Environmental control programs the emergence of distinct functional ensembles from unconstrained chemical reactions (2019) (31)
Autocatalytic replication and homochirality in biopolymers: is homochirality a requirement of life or a result of it? (2012) (29)
The Emergence of Life as a First-Order Phase Transition. (2015) (27)
Inform: Efficient Information-Theoretic Analysis of Collective Behaviors (2018) (23)
Detectability of Life Using Oxygen on Pelagic Planets and Water Worlds (2020) (18)
Re-conceptualizing the origins of life (2017) (17)
Beyond COVID-19: network science and sustainable exit strategies (2020) (17)
Division of labour promotes the spread of information in colony emigrations by the ant Temnothorax rugatulus (2020) (16)
Toward Homochiral Protocells in Noncatalytic Peptide Systems (2008) (16)
Prebiotic RNA Network Formation: A Taxonomy of Molecular Cooperation (2017) (15)
Revealing the structure of information flows discriminates similar animal social behaviors (2019) (15)
Transfer of Information in Collective Decisions by Artificial Agents (2018) (14)
Intelligence as a planetary scale process (2022) (13)
The “Hard Problem” of Life (2016) (12)
Physical Universality, State-Dependent Dynamical Laws and Open-Ended Novelty (2017) (12)
Integrated Information Theory and Isomorphic Feed-Forward Philosophical Zombies (2019) (12)
Inform: A toolkit for information-theoretic analysis of complex systems (2017) (11)
Self-referencing cellular automata: A model of the evolution of information control in biological systems (2014) (10)
Life's chirality from prebiotic environments (2012) (10)
Evolutionary dynamics and information hierarchies in biological systems (2013) (10)
Logic and connectivity jointly determine criticality in biological gene regulatory networks (2018) (10)
Origins of Life: A Problem for Physics (2017) (10)
Clone Swarms: Learning to Predict and Control Multi-Robot Systems by Imitation (2019) (10)
The new physics needed to probe the origins of life (2019) (9)
Chiral Polymerization in Open Systems From Chiral-Selective Reaction Rates (2011) (9)
Scaling laws in enzyme function reveal a new kind of biochemical universality (2021) (9)
Network Theory in Prebiotic Evolution (2018) (8)
Quantifying the pathways to life using assembly spaces (2019) (8)
An Information-Based Classification of Elementary Cellular Automata (2016) (7)
The Descent of Math (2015) (7)
An integrated energy system (2018) (7)
A Flexible Bayesian Framework for Assessing Habitability with Joint Observational and Model Constraints (2019) (7)
Quantum non-barking dogs (2013) (6)
Assembly Theory Explains and Quantifies the Emergence of Selection and Evolution (2022) (6)
Fifty years of ‘More is different’ (2022) (6)
THE CHIRALITY OF LIFE: FROM PHASE TRANSITIONS TO ASTROBIOLOGY (2008) (5)
Digital and Analogue Information in Organisms (2017) (5)
Seeding Biochemistry on Other Worlds: Enceladus as a Case Study (2020) (5)
Cell phenotypes as macrostates of the GRN dynamics. (2020) (5)
Living through Downward Causation: From Molecules to Ecosystems (2017) (5)
Life Beyond the Solar System: Remotely Detectable Biosignatures (2018) (4)
Naïve individuals promote collective exploration in homing pigeons (2021) (4)
The Many Faces of State Space Compression (2017) (4)
Formalising the Pathways to Life Using Assembly Spaces (2022) (4)
Scarcity of scale-free topology is universal across biochemical networks (2020) (4)
Informational architecture across non-living and living collectives (2021) (4)
Universal Scaling in Biochemical Networks (2017) (4)
Formalizing falsification for theories of consciousness across computational hierarchies (2020) (3)
A unified mechanistic framework for developmental and evolutionary change (2018) (3)
Major Transitions in Planetary Evolution (2018) (3)
Pattern Regeneration in Coupled Networks (2018) (3)
The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth: The Emergence of the Fourth Geosphere (2017) (3)
Formalizing Falsification of Causal Structure Theories for Consciousness Across Computational Hierarchies (2020) (3)
On the Non-uniqueness Problem in Integrated Information Theory (2021) (2)
Quorum sensing without deliberation: biological inspiration for externalizing computation to physical spaces in multi-robot systems (2021) (2)
REAL-WORLD OPEN-ENDED EVOLUTION: A LEAGUE OF LEGENDS ADVENTURE (2018) (2)
An Information-theoretic Classification of Complex Systems (2016) (2)
Automata and Animats: From Dynamics to Cause–Effect Structures (2017) (2)
Supplementary material from "How causal analysis can reveal autonomy in models of biological systems" (2017) (2)
Information Theory as an Experimental Tool for Integrating Disparate Biophysical Signaling Modules (2022) (2)
Environmental Control Programs the Emergence of Distinct Product Ensembles from Unconstrained Chemical Reaction Networks (2018) (2)
How) Did Information Emerge (2017) (2)
A Universal Theory of Life: Math, Art & Information (2017) (1)
The information signature of diverging lineages (2021) (1)
Prebiotic Network Evolution (2015) (1)
Theoretical models for the emergence of biomolecular homochirality (2010) (1)
Is Life Fundamental (2015) (1)
The Natural History of Information (2020) (1)
◾ Transition from Abiotic to Biotic: Is There an Algorithm for It? (2014) (1)
Ants acknowledge information to control its rate of transfer (2019) (1)
Inferring Exoplanet Disequilibria with Multivariate Information in Atmospheric Reaction Networks (2021) (1)
Enabling mobile technologies for all (2011) (0)
The biogeosciences are a critical step on the path toward detecting life on exoplanets (2019) (0)
Intelligence as a planetary scale process – CORRIGENDUM (2022) (0)
The Light Shines Through (2018) (0)
Publisher Correction: Fifty years of ‘More is different’ (2022) (0)
From Matter to Life (2017) (0)
Scoping of Opportunities and Institutional Assessment for Malawi’s Engagement in the Carbon Markets: Opportunity Assessment and Institutional Capacity Report (2012) (0)
List of Contributors (2020) (0)
Beyond Initial Conditions and Laws of Motion: Constructor Theory of Information and Life (2017) (0)
Informational architecture across non-living and living collectives (2021) (0)
Quorum sensing without counting , a discounting approach , or : Nobody goes there anymore , it ’ s too crowded (2018) (0)
INSIGHTS INTO THE EMERGENCE OF REPLICATION , HEREDITY , AND SPECIATION IN ABIOTIC SYSTEMS (2017) (0)
On the Emerging Codes for Chemical Evolution (2017) (0)
A unified formal framework for developmental andevolutionary change in gene regulatory network models (2018) (0)
Limitations of Primary Productivity on "Aqua Planets:" Implications for Detectability (2017) (0)
THE TOPOLOGY OF ATMOSPHERIC CHEMICAL REACTION NETWORKS: A POTENTIAL NEW BIOSIGNATURE FOR EXOPLANETS (2017) (0)
A Relational Macrostate Theory Guides Artificial Intelligence to Learn Macro and Design Micro (2022) (0)
Bio from Bit (2018) (0)
Artificial Life 13 (2012) (0)
The new physics needed to probe the origins of life (2019) (0)
False positives and the challenge of testing the alien hypothesis (2022) (0)
Assessing the viability of biochemical networks across planets (2019) (0)
Chemical Complexity: Implications for Bio/Technosignatures (2020) (0)
Characteristic Chiral Nature of Hierarchical Biochemical Networks (2019) (0)
Inferring a Graph’s Topology from Games Played on It (2019) (0)
Intelligence as a planetary process (2019) (0)
Atmospheric Chemical Reaction Network Topology as an Indicator of Disequilibrium: Implications for Biosignature Detection (2019) (0)
Naïve individuals promote collective exploration in 1 homing pigeons 2 3 (2021) (0)
The Informational Architecture of Biological Networks (2015) (0)
Quantifying Non-trivial Open-Ended Evolution Reveals Necessary and Sufficient Conditions (2016) (0)
Probabilistic Frameworks for Life Detection (2005) (0)
Chiral Polymerization in Open Systems From Chiral-Selective Reaction Rates (2012) (0)
Constraints that Deconstrain : Characterizing the Biological Hierarchy Across Levels of Organization (2017) (0)
Quorum sensing without deliberation: biological inspiration for externalizing computation to physical spaces in multi-robot systems (2021) (0)
Formal Definitions of Unbounded Evolution and Innovation Reveal Universal Mechanisms for Open-Ended Evolution in Dynamical Systems (2017) (0)
INCOGNIZANT COLLECTIVE DECISION MAKING IN ANT COLONIES (2018) (0)
Quorum sensing without counting, a discounting approach (2018) (0)
From the Origins of Life to the Nature of Intelligence (2020) (0)
Open-Ended Evolution and Innovation in a Deterministic Cellular Automata Universe (2015) (0)
New Statistical Measures of Atmospheric Disequilibria and Implications for DetectingLife and Technology (2020) (0)
Biochemical networks display universal structure across projections and levels of organization (2019) (0)
Informational Architecture of the Fission Yeast Cell Cycle Regulatory Network (2014) (0)
Investigating the role of oxidation-reduction reactions in biochemical network structure across levels of organization (2019) (0)

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