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ArticleScientific reports2017

Assortative Mating: Encounter-Network Topology and the Evolution of Attractiveness.

S Dipple, T Jia, T Caraco, G Korniss, B K Szymanski

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

S DippleDepartment of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY, 12180-3590, USA.
T JiaCollege of Computer and Information Science, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, P. R. China.
T CaracoDepartment of Biological Sciences, University at Albany, Albany, NY, 12222, USA.
G KornissDepartment of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY, 12180-3590, USA.
B K SzymanskiNetwork Science and Technology Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY, 12180-3590, USA.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute · USAGH University of Krakow · PLSouthwest University · CNUniversity at Albany, State University of New York · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We model a social-encounter network where linked nodes match for reproduction in a manner depending probabilistically on each node's attractiveness. The developed model reveals that increasing either the network's mean degree or the "choosiness" exercised during pair formation increases the strength of positive assortative mating. That is, we note that attractiveness is correlated among mated nodes. Their total number also increases with mean degree and selectivity during pair formation. By iterating over the model's mapping of parents onto offspring across generations, we study the evolution of attractiveness. Selection mediated by exclusion from reproduction increases mean attractiveness, but is rapidly balanced by skew in the offspring distribution of highly attractive mated pairs.

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PMID28345625
PMCPMC5366857
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