About the Authors

Chrisantha Fernando

ctf20@sussex.ac.uk

Affiliations MRC National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London, United Kingdom, Collegium Budapest (Institute for Advanced Study), Budapest, Hungary

K. K. Karishma

Affiliation MRC National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London, United Kingdom

Eörs Szathmáry

Affiliations Collegium Budapest (Institute for Advanced Study), Budapest, Hungary, Parmenides Foundation, Munich, Germany, Institute of Biology, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CF ES. Performed the experiments: CF. Analyzed the data: CF. Wrote the paper: CF ES. Contributed to discussion w.r.t. implementation details of topology copying in the brain: KKK.