For decades, one of the most intuitive assumptions in network science has been that the best-performing systems are the most uniform ones. If every generator in a power grid behaves identically, if every neuron in a brain circuit responds the same way, and if every building block in an engineered material repeats the same geometry, the thinking went, the whole system should run smoothly and predictably. Differences among components were treated …
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