What is the maximum rate at which information can be transmitted error-free in fibre–optic communication systems? For linear channels, this was established in classic works of Nyquist and Shannon.

A major goal of evolutionary biology is to understand the dynamics of natural selection within populations. The strength and direction of selection can be described by regressing relative fitness ...

It has been difficult to shake the linear communications model that many of us were taught. The underlying assumption of the linear model – that the goal of effective communication is to get a message ...