On some theoretical grounds for an organism-centered biology: Property emergence, supervenience, and downward causation. - Charbel Niño El-Hani; Claus Emmeche (Theory Biosci., 2000)

Downward Determination: A Philosophical Step in the Way to a Dynamic Account of Emergence. - Fabiano de Souza Vieira; Charbel Niño El-Hani (Cybern. Hum. Knowing, 2008)

Emergence and Downward Determination in the Natural Sciences. - Fabiano de Souza Vieira; Charbel Niño El-Hani (Cybern. Hum. Knowing, 2008)

Comparative protein analysis of the chitin metabolic pathway in extant organisms: A complex network approach. - Aristóteles Góes-Neto; Marcelo V. C. Diniz; Leonardo B. L. Santos; Suani T. R. Pinho; José G. V. Miranda; Thierry Petit Lobão; Ernesto P. Borges; Charbel Niño El-Hani; Roberto F. S. Andrade (Biosyst., 2010)

Emergence of self-organized symbol-based communication in artificial creatures. - Angelo C. Loula; Ricardo R. Gudwin; Charbel Niño El-Hani; João Queiroz (Cogn. Syst. Res., 2010)

Detecting Network Communities: An Application to Phylogenetic Analysis. - Roberto F. S. Andrade; Ivan C. Rocha-Neto; Leonardo B. L. Santos; Charles N. de Santana; Marcelo V. C. Diniz; Thierry Petit Lobão; Aristóteles Góes-Neto; Suani T. R. Pinho; Charbel Niño El-Hani (PLoS Comput. Biol., 2011)

Downward Determination in Semiotic Multi-level Systems. - João Queiroz; Charbel Niño El-Hani (Cybern. Hum. Knowing, 2012)