ArticleeLife2021
Social fluidity mobilizes contagion in human and animal populations.
Article in eLife, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Identifying Social-Epidemiological Roles Associated with Viral Exposure Using Regular Equivalence Blockmodeling.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Density-dependent network structuring within and across wild animal systems.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Article
- Breathing synchrony shapes respiratory disease risk in bottlenose dolphins.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Experimental manipulation of population density in a wild bird alters social structure but not patch discovery rate.Animal behaviour · 2024Article
- Pathogen transmission modes determine contact network structure, altering other pathogen characteristics.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Review
- A Metapopulation Model for Preventing the Reintroduction of Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus to Naïve Herds: Scotland Case Study.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2022Article
- A multi-species repository of social networks.Scientific data · 2019Article
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Abstract
Humans and other group-living animals tend to distribute their social effort disproportionately. Individuals predominantly interact with a small number of close companions while maintaining weaker social bonds with less familiar group members. By incorporating this behavior into a mathematical model, we find that a single parameter, which we refer to as
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