About the Authors

Eleanor R. Brush

brush@princeton.edu

Affiliations Program in Quantitative and Computational Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America, Center for Complexity and Collective Computation, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

David C. Krakauer

Affiliations Center for Complexity and Collective Computation, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America, Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Jessica C. Flack

Affiliations Center for Complexity and Collective Computation, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JCF. Performed the experiments: JCF. Analyzed the data: ERB DCK JCF. Wrote the paper: ERB DCK JCF.