Basketball games mimic nature

(FECYT - Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology) Behind the apparent randomness of a basketball game, a process of self-organisation is actually taking place amid the teams. The interactions between team mates and opponents are constantly influencing each other while the game itself allows for creative behaviors to emerge. This phenomenon, detected by Spanish researchers after analyzing over 6,000 NBA games, resembles the way in which living things must continually evolve in order to surv...